What type of due diligence have you and the board members facilitated? Has the management team performed a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis, have you all decided on a business level strategy or are you at that point in the process yet?

BD: We are kinda at that point. Automobile racing being automobile racing in all forms, it’s hard when you say due diligence with so many different people. I have bounced it off any number of people I know. Right up to Dallas Garner the Chairman of the NHRA Board, and spent an hour over there at the World Finals. I have also talked to all the race track guys I can talk to. They said ‘Yeah, we would run your cars but nobody has ever asked us to.’ I don’t want to be a booking guy, and I won’t be. But I will put together races for them and, if I could, find a dozen or two dozen new races across the country for everybody. Let’s say we could do something with the entry fees, we can get a sponsors, and we have bounced this off of sponsors, and we are not far away from getting a major sponsor for this entire series. But, first of all I have to have a series. I can’t go to them, to sponsor a series that doesn’t exist. Well, that isn’t gonna happen, but when we do put together a series, and I let everybody decide this. My motto has been complete transparency. Like Im talking to you now..

The Association is asking for dues from the racers what I have learned it is about $250 dollars a month or $2500 a year if paid at one time. Does this funding provide you with the resources to facilitate the various protocols need to establish this association? So the funding is driving your efforts?

BD: That money is driving me, William Doner and Associates, to promote this class and take it up to the next level, and give it some identity of its own, and see where it goes…that is correct. I won’t have enough money in there to hire a decent secretary, much less me. I need about forty members at paying $2500 per year, which is a hundred thousand dollars, to fund this thing. I would pay my own expenses, and might have to hire a secretary, and none of this is cheap, just to keep my head above water with it. Well, I’m not going to get that many -- I might get between twenty and thirty -- but regardless, I said I would give it a year, one year and see where we are. Then we will stop and reevaluate every year to see if we have made enough .

I have to pay for everything like my plane tickets, rent cars, my own everything. Nobody is paying anything else on top of that. I plan to go to a number of tracks this summer. Plus I go up to Bakersfield and my hotel rooms I do all that myself, as a part of this whole package. And if this thing doesn’t work, I’m going in the hole. And I’ll go in the hole ’cause I said I would do it. But I hope I can get enough funding so I don’t go terribly backwards on this deal. If I got a hundred thousand, I would be willing to take the remainder and put it into a fund for the racers. I’m not trying to cut a fat one, I’m just trying to exist. So at this point, I have dropped all my other projects to take on this operation. I have been working 24/7 on it.

Are there board members of the association? Do you mind if I ask who those are?

BD: No, no problem at all. The board is Gary Densham, Bucky Austin, Ron Hodgson, Rich Townsend, Dave Schwartz, and finally our legal counsel Sam Eivy, a guy from the Midwest, who also has a nostalgia car. He records all the minutes and then sends the minutes out to everybody when we finish. And when we finish here I will send you those minutes of the meeting. [Note: We have not received those minutes at this time.]

How will the UNFCA look to interface with the NHRA and or IHRA? And are you reaching out to those IHRA teams in the Midwest and the East Coast and is this a way to consolidate forces with those cars on the West Coast?

BD: Well I don’t think so, it’s like, for example Dave Schwartz, he represents the Rupert team and they have won the IHRA championship this year (and in 2014). There are some racers from here (West Coast) who go out on the IHRA circuit, in addition to them Tim Boychuk, who is one of our big supporters, he runs a lot of the IHRA races and the Edmonton race is an IHRA race at Hodgson’s place. So consequently that is a big race. The sanctioning bodies will run what they run. I’ve talked to Skooter (Peaco, IHRA Vice President of Race Operations) this week, and I told him whatever you need from us let me know. If I can help you with anything please let me know. I’m not booking cars, but I will put the word out on email to help out.

As far as the race tracks go, Spokane promoter Craig Smith is the first guy who said he join our group. I helped him with the Goodguys event they had in their town even though they didn’t have a race at their track. I did help him restructure his funny car race that they have there in July. And he is up there in Division Six, and he is telling everybody to support this thing ’cause he is really impressed with what has happened in a short amount of time. He is a racer himself with a (modern day) Top Fuel car and is real reluctant to throw money around. But he called me up this week and said he wanted to be the first one to join up.