This was the Best Day of my Life! I still am shocked that this just happened today. Before I get into details about it I would like to give you all a little bit of my history sense it deals with what happened today.
My dad past away when I was only 15 years old. After that I looked up to my older brother because he is so much like our dad. When my bother and his wife were dating they used to take me with them everywhere. Everyone thought that I was their baby. In my senior year of high school he got me a job in Texarkana, Texas with him for the summer as an electrical helper. I made good money and after a year of saving, I came back to Tennessee and purchased a 1987 Mustang Gt. I was 19 and trying very hard to feel manly. I got into racing and the addiction grew so much. My brother and his son Jason also got into the mustang thing and started racing with me. We all had the same model cars and was racing almost every week. This was the point in my life where me and my brother got really close.
One morning after installing a new nitrous system on the car, me and Jason thought that we should go try it out. That was going to turn out bad. We was having problem getting it to do anything at all and all of a sudden it clicked and the 150 extra horsepower overwhelmed me. I cleaned out a guys front yard with it and that was the end of racing. I did not have the time to fix it back then because of a new job. After that we kind of fell out of touch and Jason said that he didn't want to race without me. He parked his Mustang in my woods where it sit for years. If you are still reading hang in there I am getting there.
Last year work was slow and I went to work with my brother until business picked back up. (He owns a business also).
We started talking about raceing and he told me that he wanted to get Jason's old mustang and maybe race again. I did auto and body repair professionally for 16 years but that's another story.
. We had to drag the car out of the woods because it had sit so long the brakes were locked up. Over the last year me and him have gotten close again working on this car. I have not drove mine in 23 years and that is about to change. Today me and him were getting the car cleaned up to paint and the emotions got the best of me. It took me a long time to tell him. I was crying like a little girl. He said are you ok? I just told him I cant keep this from you anymore. He has been going through cancer treatments and is weak right now. He ask me earlier this week if I would race his car at Bristol late this year. I was so scared of disappointing him. He said what ever it is I got your back. So I let it rip and said I'm Transgender.
To my disbelief he said "Whats the big deal about that? at least you are healthy" I am still shocked about this. Maybe he is in shock?? His own son Jason told me that it was not going to be good. About an hour later he shows back up with a box of parts for my car and said. "You paint my car and I will help fix yours and we can start racing again."
He said now that I know why you were depressed all those years we can start having fun. He said you can race this year as Chelsea and I'm sure you be a hottie behind the wheel. He said "Let someone say something", like he is already trying to protect me. I'm sorry that this was a long mess really but he is like a dad to me and I have been dreading this for years. I have included a few pics of the gang back in the early 2000's if any of you are interested from my racing days. Its a awesome feeling to run 135MPH in under 10 seconds but the feeling I got from my Brother today was Priceless!! This truly was one of the happiest days of my life.
I didn't intend this to be a post about cars but more about coming out to my brother and got carried away. I always loved racing and looks like now I am going to race as Chelsea! I don't remember loosing this many tears in my life.
Only one more person to go and I'm Free!
Hugs,
Chelsea
Yours truly sporting a Viagra hat and a goodrear shirt.
The gang hanging out waiting for round 2. early 2000's
1999 Jasons car. Same one we are finishing now.
Same car 18 years later fresh out of the woods.
Same car today ready for paint.
Its going to be red like mine.
