The story of Phoote and Toew

While not the first time I dealt with this , it was the one that set the thing in stone.

There was this one cloudy rainy day in Utah. I had just pulled into Tony's Towing there before Tony dropped out of the game, but there on the tiny Coffee table was this small newsrag with the title PhooteNotes. the idea stuck. Now I have scoured over the entire Internet and just about anyone I thought might have an old copy of the publication but to no avail. A few years back I got a copy of a new publication that is little more than a truck sales publication with just a bit of information on toewing. Seems as though the publication is more into the sibling of toewing which is repo work, just because I think they are trying to capture some sort of whoppee over the TV shows that feature the task, plus to make sure all know what we see on TV is not what is. That publication is called TR FootNotes. In either case it’s a play on words if nothing else. The word foot and toe being appendages of the human anatomy , and the word tow as in rescuing disabled vehicles.

While I’d love to be the guy who started using all of that to describe on a bit of a funny anagram of what it is we do out here, but sadly I’m not. The fact that I might be more aggressive about it, is a point to ponder, and most of the time it is a thing that makes a lot of ladies I meet think I have an extra bolt unscrewed. My history on the platform of feet, toes and all most of you know. Some say it is the result of two encounters as a kid, one with a gal who watched me over the summer months while Mom & Dad were at their military duties on HAFB, the other going back to a 4th grade teacher that had some real, sweet lower limbs. Being one always out of the ordinary I figured instead of being like most male corpuscles , that feet , toes and legs were the unsung heroes of the female anatomy . As such should be praised. But I left that buried. I really never gave it much thought until I collided with things Hazzard. Now for those that have lived in caves, in 1975 there was a movie called the MoonRunners, of which I have a copy of. That movie came to be the pilot of what many know today as the Dukes-of-Hazzard, which as I heard it, is getting a revival. On January 5th an all day marathon, and then running in the old time slots as CMT ran it years ago. Finally a new reason to get cable except for Sons.

But when we as a crew and a raunchy crew we were, reopened the shop of Pat & Jims Speed Shop as the Hazzard County Garage, since we had a Gen Lee, to use as a prop, the idea for doing TV ads, for the shop and toewing with a Daisy Duke lookalike started. The idea took form, in 1984 when I saw this TV ad for a plumber in Boise, who did a closing gig of kissing the hand of the female customer. Tag read we treat all our customers like royalty. My Idea was have Daisy break down in the jeep, me as Crazy Cooter(so my nickname is ) show up hook up and rescue sweet Daisy and at the end, I kiss her toes with the tag running, we luv toews. Mashing the words toe and tow together. It took about 4 times and 32 takes to figure out smooching on bare toes or feet was really yucky. So as the censors on the Dukes did on Daisy, the application of nylons on those feet worked. Perfume or something sweet like Kool-Aid or something could be applied, which tasted and smelled much better than sweaty feet.

So I became somewhat of a conasooer of all things hosiery and womens toes , I’m sorry , but that’s it. That standard has became the standard always applied here at the shop, the toew service and the club. If a gal is showing legs or toes in a photo spread, nylons will be worn. Nylons hide bunions and corns and hammer toes real good too.

On the smooshing the words toe and tow together. That came from our intern trainer/sex therapist for HazzardAyre Radio. There was a day I was having a go back and forth with a producer, who could not wrap his tung around the word tow, he kept pronouncing the word TOW like COW, rather than TOE>or TOW. So Emme Lee, said why not just mash the two words together? And as such the word TOEW for rescue and recovery of disabled vehicles was born.

Now I need to pitch this as well. Many ask what’s with all the wings on all our logos etc. Understand there has always been aviation in our family, my Dad flew in the Marines, as well as had his small farm aviation company. Eagle Starr Flying Service. My choice of professions was a bit more as it is going toewing, but there are some months the toew trucks sit , ALLOT. So one day after things had settled down with the suspension of the Montgomery Foundation, in 2003, and this day, my 3rd cousin Gordon, and I were eating lunch waiting on a guy who had a truck that was the same year as LexiBelle, that I wanted to buy for parts for LexiBelle> so we were on the flightline there at Bountiful SkyPark, in what is now considered Woods Cross, Utah, admiring the aircraft, when Gordon says, why don’t we do that? So we all met with Cousin Bud who was Trustee of the Montgomery Foundation(mom & Dads money) took the last $200k and recovered the old aircraft of Dads, Gordon threw in $500k got a small hangar, and in mid 2005 what you all know as and is AyreWolf Aviation was born. Except for one thing, I could wrench on the aircraft but could not legally fly em. Seems as though Marine pilots certificates and flying in civilian services, does not transition. So that’s 80% of the reason I’m moving to Utah in February. The other 30% is to get what you knew as HazzardAyre Radio, redone and reairing with a helluvalot more horsepower, more on that in a few future entries. But the wings celebrates and is connected to our primary business AyreWolf Aviation.

Well Monday comes early , gotta get up early to go talk to Charlie. See ya’ll on the flip in the PM Monday.

L8R ya’ll

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