RIP: MikeZ (1957-8/3/2024), aka: Joe Bob - MEMBER #5 Options

[TROJANMAN]

I hope you find peace on the other side, because you were a good soul.

I am told there are no jackstands in Heaven (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

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Mike was living in Denver, Colorado when he passed, and Boulder before that.
He spent most of his life in SoCal, and bounced around Georgia a bit.

A lot of people have different memories of him. I only have good ones.

His passing was sudden to everyone, except maybe Mike. We spoke weekly. He died of natural causes.

His family is coming to town on Thursday 8.8 (I will ask them about services, but I know cremation is likely.)

[Zeke]

I knew Mike from The Don and Glen swaps in Riverside. He bought my 914 race car and complained about it, then won the first autocross he raced it after putting a piston or 3 in it because I seized it at Big Willow on a hot day running lean Webers. Which were sold to me by the typical type of person that you find on these forums. IOW, a liar.

Mike wasn't a liar, just an ass. Or should I say about as blunt and gouache as they come. But he was a friend of the Porsche air-cooled community.

He got injured pretty badly when someone from the soccer field he was at during his daughter's game collided with him bigly at the sideline. As a result he ended up with a pain killer problem and his marriage went down from there. He had a great job with the Santa Barbara County Environmental dept that he did/could not continue with after the injury.

So he was forced out of CA after living in Orange County for a spell. If I had to guess CA was too expensive to live on disability which is a fact and a shame. So he bounced around for more than a decade trying to sell graphics produced by another that had the actual equipment. That arrangement wasn't ideal and deteriorated for whatever reasons.

If anything, mikez lived a hard life from the time he got clobbered injuring his back on that day at the soccer field. You never know when your life is going to turn upside down or, indeed, end.

Joe Bob, is the user name he took here and elsewhere starting at the time of the divorce. IMHO, his wife was just as much of the problem as he was.

RIP Mike/Joe

(This information was documented from years of forum posts. Don't ask me to provide a bibliography.)