As many of you know, Dan helped me finish up the mustang once I got the engine & trans in it. It was just in October that he and I took his cobra up to Buddy's to meet up with victor, mike, larry, the jasons, todd, etcetc. Then we blew past Jason's truck doing at least 120. I was hopeful, at that time, that he had beat cancer.
Before I brought my car over there I had only spoken with him a couple times at various car shows and MSC. It didn't really matter to him that we barely knew each other at that time, he let me bring it over and worked on it with me side by side every weekend for over two months. That's the type of person he was, he'd lend me or anyone else on this site a trailer, a second set of hands, or a plethora of knowledge without thinking twice.
One of the times that my friend Gibbs and I went to pick up the trailer we ended up BS'in with Dan in the garage for a couple of hours, which was pretty normal. It was the first time those two had met one another but it didn't matter. When I texted him this morning, his response was "The world needs more people like him". That is the exact truth, you just don't meet people like him in today's world. We lost a good one this morning.
Rest in Peace, friend