One Mustang, Two Drivers: Father and Son Bond Through Racing
A bond between generations is found in this Mustang drag racing car. Driven by father, then by son, it holds an immeasurable amount of history.
Get your nearest tissue box, because this one is a doozy (click the link to see the news video). The Mustang you see here isn’t your normal father-to-son gift between generations. It’s a bond between father and son like no other. Tinker Green, and eventually his son, Artie, have been racing this green 1968 Mustang GT for four decades, with hundreds of wins to its credit.
After the Mustang sat for a number of years, the story of a handed-down race car took a turn. Tinker had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Artie, noting Tinker’s energy decline had said. “A year ago he was working a 10-hour day … Now he can’t even get to the mailbox.” It prompted Artie to get the ’68 Mustang up and running again. While it forced the sale of his own drag car, raising the money for parts was important, and spending time with his father even more so.
Artie and Tinker eventually got the car running again, and it won on its first weekend after the rebuild took place.
Race weekends have proven to be therapeutic for Tinker, with a completely different attitude every time he knows there is a race coming up. “Every medicine we’ve tried it. Nothing works better than [racing]. Nothing.”
