Well I am an avid SCUBA diver as well as enjoy skydiving from time to time..The origin of my name came many years ago when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up (I have since realized I never will grow up..just old) I was toying with the idea at the time to take my love for recreation diving and become a Commercial Diver I also have the intent to move somewhere tropical..live on a boat and maybe run SCUBA excursions from time to time..hence Dive-Master (the rating needed by PADI to do so) at the same time I was signing up for yahoo mail..Divemaster was taken so I settled for the Y..I love the Y I instead took my love of boats and came topside and became a Merchant Marine and now make my living on top of the water rather than in the depths and still intend to retire somewhere tropical and continue to dive..SCUBA..SKY..MUFF


So the name has stayed with me and I use it for most of my social networks!

I started trolling this site in 2002 and then joined 2003. Always an avid boater, owned a number of boats but always wanted to hear a pair of unmuffled Big V8's behind me so I picked the term wannabe. Bought the boat in 2007 on Ebay (from a fellow OSO'er). No longer a wannabe but kept the name.

My screen name comes from the former name of my boat red sled a bright red 10 meter and 33 how many feet the boat is

I started racing karts and motox as a teenager. When I was about 16 I decided that racing came first until I turned 40 then i had to grow up and stop racing. So I ran the number 39 on most of my race cars and when i hit 39 i sold the race stuff and bought a Scarab.

I own trannyman transmission in NY

I worked for a Turbo manufacturer. Did a lot of the industrys firsts starting at 18 in 1968 actualy worked for them twice. Would be working for them today if they were not bought out. The 2256 part was add by the internet guess there were 2255 turbo s when I applied.
Turbocharging things got to be a passion for a while

My real name is T2x... Rich Luhrs is a figment of Brownie's imagination.

Thanks for clearing that up!!!

Yeah, that could have been a bad one...

I would put that in your sig .....just so it's always clear