4WD is our first love. And the X - 5 was our first car. I still remember the night driving in Tennessee when Paul had the flash of inspiration to put the idler pulley on the belt tunnel. That moment that made the whole thing possible.
The unfortunate part is that we have lost the McDonald's napkin on which he made the first sketch. We were rolling west on I-70 at about 80 MPH talking about something inconsequential when Paul shouted out, "Shut up, Dad! I've got it! Find me something to draw on." If you think about it, the X - 6 Squared was born that night.
Work on the new 4WD has been excruciatingly slow. We needed new pulleys and the supplier took three months to deliver, and, frankly, the SCX - 60 got in the way too, so very little happened all summer. We are rolling again now. The new car will be just as ground-breaking as all our previous cars have been.
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