This is a big loss to me. The man was amazing. He knew tools like a walking encyclopedia. He knew music - we talked a lot of music and would quote lines back and forth. He was a really great mechanic I think everyone knows he built and worked on bikes but he knew cars as well - especially Fords he was just finishing up a restoration of a Mustang for his son. He knew a lot of US history especially in the area he lived and in the south and had family that goes back to the very beginnings and he knew that well. And he had a really great sense of humor.
He may have been rough around the edges but he respected people even those he didn't agree with, at least as long as you gave him back the same. But he wasn't afraid to speak his mind either.
They don't make many like him that is for sure.