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RIOR and I are in the Golf Cart Modi- fied competition, who I am, and general plans of the extensively modified custom built one-off E-Z-GO golf cart we would be building, unfortunately, all I could promise the sponsors is that we were going into this competition to hold up the first place trophy on December 31st., and that I could promise them extensive coverage and exposure during this competition on all of Facebook as well as Golf Car Options magazine. While I am talking about Golf Car Options magazine, they have been a very active participant in this build-off, they have been monitor- ing each contestant’s projects and progress, if you have not read this magazine, pick it up, go online subscribe to it, and let the golf car enthusiast in your life know about it too! I also told them about our plans for donating the cart to quadvets. org to support their organization. When the first sponsor answered my request and came on board I felt a very strong relief, within the next week we were overwhelmed by the amount of positive re- sponses we had received, some with full sponsorship on their products, some with partial amounts of their products, and yes we had some that either never responded or just did not have the financial means to offer sponsorship at this time. WHY QUADVETS.ORG While speaking to a few different veterans organizations I recalled a Golf Cart show Bryan Frye and I had attended at InterStateGolf- Cars.com, Hammond, La. in the summer of 2018. Their main focus was raising money for military veterans. I spoke with Mrs. Julie at Inter- state Golf Cars, and she was all in. Not just to help me contact the group but to also help me with sponsorship for the build, their team has been awesome and has really stepped up to the plate with E-Z-GO parts that we need for this build. She gave me contact info to the Quadvets.org and the directors’ name, Mr. Wallace Sibley. I made contact with him to discuss logistics and what my mission and goals are. We set up a meeting and he brought me in for a full facility tour of their program. The decision was made this is the organization I wanted to support. Their organization was perfect and the guys there are just like ALL VETERANS, loving, caring, apprecia- tive and most of all, DESERVING of OUR SUPPORT!! Please follow their Facebook page Quad Vets as well as their web site quadvets.org you will quickly see why we choose this organization. Well the search continued for sponsorship and more awesome companies came on board with various levels of Sponsorship Alltraxinc.com Plumquick.com InterstateGolfcars.com Deepsouthlaserllc.com Chadscustomcarts.com Extreme-Carts.com Fullblownpaint.com Ididit.com Salcometalservices.com Southern Coolers Co. (Hydreaux- Turf products) Picoulumber.com We are still reaching out to a few prospective sponsors for specific needs. I will recognize each as they commit to the team and give the approval to recognize. Remember this is a yearlong competition so we are not shar- ing a whole lot of information at this time concerning the logistics and secrets of our build cart as there are some top-notch builders we are competing against. A few small details, it will be a stretched limo frame, it will be lifted, wheels are 18”, tires are 33” mildly aggressive off-road tires, it will have a totally custom dash, pretty wild audio system, and also a pretty extensive lighting system. This cart will be powered by a very high output custom controller by Alltraxinc.com, a very powerful high torque electric motor from Plumquick.com with plans for a Lithium 48 volt 100Ah battery pack. And of course a very special custom body and paint scheme. We did hold a “name our cart competition“ with followers from our Facebook page at Golf Carts Modified and the winner would win 5 raffle tickets for the drawing that will be held in June of 2020. The winning entry was submitted by Chuck Albert in Mount Vernon Ohio with his suggestion of “SI- LENT WARRIOR” MAY 2019 27