Spinner is a guy I've known since I first moved to Illinois back when I was in the 6th grade. He's from a farming family, and hence lives a few miles south of town on his parents farm. That farm holds a lot of memories for me; playing Intellivision and Nintendo in his basement, riding bicycles to the creek to fish, shooting the rabbits that had invaded his garden, mowing that monstrosity of a lawn he has for hours at a time, and many others. I also remember riding mini-bikes and mopeds all over the countryside around his place and back and forth to/from town back before we could drive cars.
After we got our driver's licenses and cars we worked on cars a lot. He's got a big old ghetto cruiser Oldsmobile, but it's pretty cool and he plans on making it into a sleeper someday. He also drove an old Chevy Cavalier RS for quite some time, but sold it and now has a 2004 Cavalier RS. I haven't gotten around to making a page for it yet but I will someday..
There are a few things that have made Spinner famous among our little circle; speaking before he thinks, drinking copious amounts of beer, fighting with garbage cans (linked to the previous beer), and having a massive dong which we have happened to see a few times after copious amounts of alcohol have been consumed. It's even been chronicled in song format by Andy with "The Ballad of Sockinsaw."
Anyhoo, currently Spinner works as a mechanic at a GM dealership in Indiana and is starting a 1978 Camaro project car, which I will get a page up for eventually too. I suppose that's about all I should say about Spinner since nobody wants to hear about drunken tales of him running around with a sock on his junk.
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