Hey Chris
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WOL is obviously important to you, and deserves to be immortalized. One thing is inescapable, ... WOL IS Ralph, can't have one without the other. Your biggest hurdle now is "Attrition" !!!
I started this thread lamenting about the lack of traffic here anymore. My collector days are over. I still visit here because of people I've actually met as a result. The problem with getting older and having a LOT of Family and Friends is you better save up a tidy sum each year for expenses related to attending funerals.
I'm fortunate in that I have no family, and can count truly trusted friends on the fingers of one hand, with one or two left over.
Telling the WOL story in a fresh way, ... as well as the Boosted Luger epic require input from people whose days are numbered. Each month likely sees the passing of another "Hall of Famer" in the Luger community. They pass on their Lugers, ... but not the history and colorful stories.
I can't speak of wild debauched weekends after gunshows, but I can about colorful characters in the classic car collector/dealer world. There's enough fodder to make a decent feature film about the shady side, booze, guns, hotel orgies, buying women from out-of-state pimps to later marry, cars driven through million $$$ mansions to make a point, ... etc. I know these stories from folks who were there, personal assistants, ... etc. Problem with this story is he still has children that might take offense, as his name is still associated some VERY large $$$ events each year.
My point is that people who can accurately relate this info are dying off, there is only one living person I know to attest to the above tale. It may be very hard to find folks ready to talk from this site. They don't enjoy talking about things that make them uncomfortable, that's why "Politics" is quickly crushed here.
