Our Journey My name is Jim White, and this is a story about us my wife, Carol and our kids, (all grown up now) Keiria and Krista. Our journey began when we owned a boot and shoe repair shop, in Del City, Oklahoma. I also made custom cowboy boots, and speciallized in exotic designs. I made a pair of boots with a race car and checkered flags on there, (pictured below)     Our racing business came about one day when Shane Carson and Bobby Davis Jr. (WOO was in town and Shane was the promotor of their race) came into the shoe shop to get Bobby's racing shoes repaired. Bobby saw a pair of racing shoes on the shelf that I had made for myself. He picked one up, put it on his foot and jumped up and down in it, now what was funny about this whole scene was Bobby wore a size 7 shoe and these were a size 11. But his point in doing this was the flexability of my shoes. He had brought in 2 pair of Kinser shoes to have the tops cut down, because they were so stiff in the tops that he couldn't bend his ankles. He left our shop ordering 2 pair of custom shoes from us. That started our safety equipment racing business journey. Of course Shane had to have a pair, also. I grew up with Shane, his brother Scott, and my 2 brothers Wes and Gil, we all played together as kids at our local race track during the races, State Fairgrounds Speedway, Oklahoma City. While my dad Herschel "Whitey" White raced (pictured below)  and Shanes Dad (Bud Carson) was the Promotor of the track. (pictured below was Shane in his early days of racing) Red Car was the car my dad was driving, 45X Dad is in Red uniform top.  Shane Carson, Tulsa in 1974, his early days.      We kept the shoe shop, while I raced at the Fairgrounds Speedway, OKC, and made shoes for other racers I raced with. The car pictured below was my first car, 35.   This crash did this car in---barrel rolled it about 4 times down the front straight, got hit from the side & I uh don't remember much, not until I woke up in the emergency room!! Needless to say, the car was trashed. After I destroyed my car, another car owner called me to finish the year, I was in the top 10 in points and he didn't want to drive anymore and didn't want me to lose my place in the points. So I took over his car, had a rollover in it, but was fixable and ready to run the next week. I won an A feature, Was Rookie of the Year, and finished 5th that year. Our Safety Equipment business was going forward, but we weren't devoting full time to it we were having to much fun racing. The group picture is of the car owner and his family, this was the trophy presentation for my A Feature win.      After the season was over we started concentrating hard on the Safety Business. We went to trade shows and found out if we were going to make it in this business we were going to have to make everything for the drivers and some safety gear for the cars. We went onto making seat belts, uniforms, crew shirts, gloves, arm restraints. Fasttrax Safety Equipment was our business and pictures below were some of our products. We did a full sponsorship with World Of Outlaw Sprint Car Driver Kenny Jacobs and and his car owner Dan Motter. All driver uniforms and shoes and other safety gear, seat belts, torque tube restraints and crew uniforms.                      Chili Bowl Just one of the Trade Shows we attended over the years Our booth at the Chili Bowl, the car is my brothers modified that he raced at Oklahoma City Fairgrounds Speedway      I did get to drive another car at a Dallas Show, it was the number 2 car, pictured below.   We spent about 4 years traveling with the World of Outlaw series, then we moved to Indianapolis & we spent the next few years building the business and working on sprint cars and champ cars for Brad Marvel and Doc Black. Tony Stewart and Cory Kruseman also drove the champ car at the mile tracks. Brad Marvel's car is the Silver #2.        I have always had to work for myself due to having 13 surgeries to my right knee,   some days it just wouldn''t work right, and most employers didn''t care what was wrong with you they just wanted you at work.   While we lived in Indy, I went back to work as a manager of a shoe repair shop and banged my knee on a metal pole and had to have that 13th surgery. For the first time in many years my knee felt brand new. After therapy and released to go back to work we planned on pulling double duty working at the shoe shop, (carol was also a manager at another location) and working in our garage at night to build up our stock for the coming season. One afternoon after my last Drs. appointment, I went outside and bent down to pick up some leaves on our porch and something in my knee ripped, We finally found out that a nerve had ripped into and the pain was excrutiating. I was in so much pain we finally had to close the business and start our new journey as to why my pain was not getting any better. We moved to Texas where our oldest daughter lived, and our first grandchild became our new world, as well as finding a Dr. to tell me what was wrong with my knee. Our ultimate journey was when we found that Dr. (after some 30 of them we saw) told us that what I had was RSD, (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), also known as CPRS  (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome). We went home glad to finally have a diagnosis, and that it wasn't all in my head and I wasn't crazy. (There were some Drs. we saw that really told me that) only to find out this is one of the worst pain disorders known to man.  All reports say this disorder is 10 times worse than the most painful cancer.  There is no cure, they don't even know what causes it. This is my life now, PAIN-PAIN-PAIN.......... The reason I am telling this part of our story is you might know someone in pain, and although they look fine and have no visible injuries, ANYONE and I mean ANYONE can get this. It can be anything from a shot, (antibiotic or diabetic, etc) stubbed toe, smashed finger, surgery, trauma, or hitting your elbow, and you get pain that not only doesn't go away it is way off the scale of what it should be for a minor injury. If you know someone in pain, and they don't know why, or if you would just like to read more about it, you can go here:   RSD PAIN Below is just a few customers we had Benny "WaHoo" TaylorTulsa Oklahoma Ken Schrader We made several pair of shoes for Kenny he is wearing a pair in this picture. (The Late) Kenny Irwin   R.I.P Sca Driver Richard Griffin The Tempe Tornado LeLand McSpadden (The Late) Pete Frazier R.I.P This uniform we made for him