Congrats buddy! Good little article in there for ya!

Yeah John P really deserves the recognition :)

Great guy and even with as much effort as he puts into his own vehicle, he has worked twice as hard helping others with their projects.

John P is a true Gentleman in the Diesel Performance World and I am proud to call him my friend.

Great Job Buddy

Cris

Hey John,
I was in one of the shoppetts on base today and saw a Marine with a diesel magazine, asked where they were, went over to the stand and low and behole, there was Diesel World. Picked it up and knew that your was your truck on the cover!

Great Job and and seems like an excellant write up! Hope to see it in person one day.

Clif

Darn, the only diesel magazine I don't get. Looks like I'm heading to the newsstand tomorrow!!! [laugh] Congraulations to John, The Red Ram Rocket is a truely amazing truck.

Congratulations Mr Porterfield. Right on!

Congrats John.

Now I'm gonna have to go on a search because I've not been able to get diesel world for awhile.

Keegan

Keegan if I find one first I'll get you a copy!

Yeah John P really deserves the recognition :)

Great guy and even with as much effort as he puts into his own vehicle, he has worked twice as hard helping others with their projects.

John P is a true Gentleman in the Diesel Performance World and I am proud to call him my friend.

x2 on that! John is a supernice guy with a great attitude. he is always fun to talk to at the events he is always wound up. great job John P. you deserve it sir [guitar]

Congrats!

Now I've gotta go find that magazine...

congrats John I wondered when you would finally make it into a magazine. I knew it was just a matter of time.

Congratulations John. They got some nice pictures of the truck in there.

Well John I just bought the issue today. I'll give you a call if you still wanna meet up sometime, but you have to autograph it for me :)

Congrats John. Well deserved for sure. I know when my car made it into Mopar Muscle I was on cloud 9 so enjoy it. Chat with you in Feb when I get back. Ron

My sincere thanks to ALL OF YOU for your kind words!;) I appreciate all your comments very much. I am very honored to have had my truck featured in a major diesel magazine like "Diesel World", but never thought it would actually happen![laugh]

To give you all some background on how all of this happened, I attended the "ATS Truckfest" in Denver, Colorado WAY back in July of this year. My good friends there at ATS (Clint and Ranee Cannon and their entire Staff) asked me to show my truck in their shop on Friday during their yearly dealer meeting. So, I cleaned it all up, waxed it and put it on display with several other trucks including my buddies Jimmy and Dale Smiths' Pro-Street DHRA Drag truck. During that day, Clint Cannon introduced me to the Editor of "Diesel World" Magazine, namely, Kevin Wilson. I don't know if any of you have met Kevin or not, but he is really a great guy. Very friendly and sincere and also extremely knowledgable about our diesel trucks which I have found is not always the case with some of the other diesel magazines.
It is funny because Kevin was there to cover the event, had actually looked at my truck, but walked on by as it does look pretty "stock appearing." Well, Clint Cannon asked me to "raise the hood" for Kevin Wilson and it was then that he seemed alot more interested in the truck. We began talking about it and he then asked me if I would be interested in the truck appearing in an upcoming issue of "Diesel World." Of course I replied "Yes, I would" and at that point he handed me about a 6-8 page "Biographical Data Sheet" which he asked me to fill out for him. Later that day, myself, Jimmy and Dale Smith and the owners of a couple other diesel pickups followed Kevin Wilson and his Photographer, Chris Neprasch up to an area behind ATS' Facility, where Kevin and Chris took a bunch of photos of the truck, many of them now appearing in the magazine. Kevin told me it would be a few months before the truck was featured but told me it would be in there.

Way back in 2003 at Rockingham, N.C. I was approached by a guy identified as a writer/photgrapher for "Mopar Action Magazine" asking if I wanted to have my old 2002 Dodge CTD 24 valve in their magazine after I beat a Dodge Viper SRT-10 Pickup twice in drag racing there. Well he took a bunch of pictures etc, but my 2002 NEVER got in that magazine!:( So, with my 96' I was hoping it would get into "Diesel World" but didn't want to get my hopes up too high if you know what I mean. But, true to his word, Kevin Wilson got my truck in there!

I am honored to be in there and want to thank my friend Clint Cannon for introducing us, also Kevin Wilson and Chris from "Diesel World" for even
considering my truck for their magazine and finally to Scheid Diesel, ATS Diesel, Bobby Downes @ Downes Performance for being the ones to get my truck to where it is today.

Thanks again to all of you though for the nice comments! I enjoy this sport very much and am proud to call all of you my friends. ;)

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Sincerely,

John_P

I got the mag today nice congrats JP

Finally found one!! That's awesome John.

Excellent job John! You deserve the recognition!

Can I have mine autographed since I have YET to go for a ride in it???.LOL.

Congrats John on a nice article and some well deserved recogonition.......Andy

Nice to see someone we all know and respect getting the attention they deserve. Congrats John!

Can I have mine autographed since I have YET to go for a ride in it???.LOL.

Congrats John on a nice article and some well deserved recogonition.......Andy
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Thanks again to ALL OF YOU for your nice comments on the truck being in "Diesel World!";)

Andy, I really hate it that we were not able to get together up there at Fall Brawl. But I know I will see you again after the first of the year, so remind me at the next event so we can get in that truck together.

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John_P

Awesome article! John I love you onboard air compressor [laugh] Nobody deserves the article more than John and his truck. this is absolutely the cleanest 96 truck i have ever seen plus the performance is just flat outsanding. Way to go John!

Hope to see you again soon bud.

Doug

Awsome buddy!!!:):):D:D I bought you 3 extra copies today!!! AWSOME RED TRUCK!!!!!!

Nice write up. Congrats :D Very nice "Sleeper"

Congrats John! Always nice to get your hard work show off a bit! Very clean truck from what I can remember of it![laugh]

John
I agree with ALL of the above posts, except I thought the write up should have been better.

Anyone that knows you knows you are a man of his word.

Your trucks are cleaner than when then roll out of the dealership.

Congratulations

I am happy to see someone I know in the magazine. I think the fella missed the point, the MAN behind the truck is the story.

That is my thoughts on this.

Glad to be considered as a friend of John_P

See Ya
Chris

John
I agree with ALL of the above posts, except I thought the write up should have been better.

Anyone that knows you knows you are a man of his word.

Your trucks are cleaner than when then roll out of the dealership.

Congratulations

I am happy to see someone I know in the magazine. I think the fella missed the point, the MAN behind the truck is the story.

That is my thoughts on this.

Glad to be considered as a friend of John_P

See Ya
Chris
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Chris:

Thanks for your kind words buddy!;) Honestly Chris I was just happy to see the truck get into the magazine, as I didn't think it would really happen.

How is everything going down in Florida for you and Leigh?? Have you heard much from Geoffery?? We miss you not being here Chris! I for one can say that "you don't realize how much you will miss someone until they are
gone!":( Take care buddy!

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John_P