Richard Moss:  

Let's see, where to start? I left home at 17 and quit school the 26th of February of 1963 and joined the Air Force where I spent the next 8 years. In 1964 I was assigned to Bitburg AFB, Germany. I loved Germany. There is so much history there and beautiful country. While there I started racing sports cars, racing all over. I returned stateside in 1968 assigned to Mtn. Home AFB in Mtn. Home, Idaho, where I started again racing sports cars and eventually racing stock cars and sprint cars. I separated from the Air Force in Feb., 1971 and stayed in Idaho, attending Boise State University attending school at night while working as a carpenter during the day. I moved to Boise in 1974 at which time I went to work at the Post Office, while finishing school. The Post Office was a horrible place to work, horrible. I left Idaho in 1978, moving to Whittier, Ca. where again I had my construction company. In 1994, I was recruited by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development(OSHPD) as an Area Compliance Officer. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I was responsible for the oversight of approximately 6 billion dollars of construction. During this period, I began construction of a 1970 Hemi Dodge Daytona clone to run at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Unfortunately, as it neared completion, I became very ill and disabled, so although 99.9 percent complete, I was never able to run it. In 2002, I retired and returned to Boise where my wife Beverly and I no...Expand for more