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thetarttfuldickhead · 8 months

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For no particular reason whatsoever I’m now mildly obsessed with the notion of (seemingly) unlikely theatre buddies Isaac and Jamie.

Say that – as per what’s suggested in the post linked to above – Isaac’s got all these repressed acting dreams now finding an expression in dressing up for the team, as Santa, as a judge, as any fucking cool thing with an over the top costume. He might well have been sneaking off to watch plays for years. Always alone, ‘cause while he ain’t ashamed of this shit, it’s just. Well. It’s not a thing that big bad footballers do, is is, and it’s too precious and too important for him to risk it being mocked or even just met with incomprehension from the people he works with. He’s fine going on his own, anyway. Saves him having to listen to uninformed opinions about whatever he saw on stage afterwards. (It’s not a secret, per se. He casually mentions plays he’s been to from time to time, and all; it’s just not something he actively involves other people in, at least not until now.)

And Jamie now… Keeley introduced him to theatre and it was a fucking ordeal for both of them, Jamie getting frustrated with having his emotions intentionally roused and then getting chastised for expressing said intentionally roused emotions, and Keeley just wanting to have a pretty boyfriend she could actually bring to things without it getting weird and loud. But for all of that, Jamie quite liked the actual plays: the drama, the theatrics, the flair and big emotions and – yes – costumes*. Good bit of fun, innit. And he’s not an idiot, so he gets the hang of not shouting at the players eventually, and while that’s still a bit annoying people not getting mad at him for getting too involved makes for a smoother experience.

So maybe Jamie takes himself to a play every now and then. And maybe one night when he hasn’t been back at Richmond for more than a few weeks he’s lounging in a non-descript hoodie, incognito like, by the bar between acts and oh, that guy in an equally non-descript hoodie looks familiar, doesn’t he, and yeah, that’s Isaac and Jamie doesn’t quite know what to do with that; he’s still finding his feet as the prodigal son and reformed prick and Isaac’s the captain now and if he’s here dressed like that he probably doesn’t want to be recognized and Jamie’s been trying out this new thing called tact so –

Isaac looks up and catches Jamie’s eyes. For a beat there’s just stillness, a breath held, and then Jamie thinks fuck it and swaggers over because he is dying to discuss if Nora would be better off leaving her husband or smashing Krogstad over the head with a frying pan.

And Isaac finds it’s actually quite fun to have some company and Jamie’s opinions are pretty mad but they’re informed mad somehow and Jamie’s clearly into this and not being a prick at all, so that’s okay. They go for a drink afterwards. A couple of Thursays later Isaac gets an extra ticket for the Almeida’s new production of Medea and asks Jamie to tag along. He never could have fucking imagined, he thinks as they take their seats and he sees his companion lean eagerly forward, just a couple of years ago, that this is where they’d be, that this is something he’d share with Jamie Tartt of all people.

But if it’s good then it’s good, yeah, no sense wondering about it or about what was. Isaac leans back in his chair, relaxing, while next to him Jamie is humming with barely constrained excitement.

The lights dim. The curtain rises.

#*the way jamie nods along as beard lists off playwriters in 3x07 suggests he does have some proper knowledge about theatre #eventually most of the team get in on it of course #but isaac and jamie remain the ones with the special interest #and still regularly go watch a play just the two of them #new headcanon just dropped #not sure how long i'll hold on to it but for now it's fun #isaac mcadoo #jamie tartt #my stuff

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i guess i just need you to explain what exactly ted is guilty of, because even if he accidentally hurt nate’s feelings, nate’s actions are his own. having your feelings hurt doesn’t give you permission to hurt other people

hi anon, sorry i took a while to answer, i was on a trip for a few days!

i’d like to point out again that i genuinely think that ted has never purposely tried to hurt or belittle nate in any single way, it's just the way how everything was fleshed out and how nate (sometimes poorly) interpreted it. i should rewatch s01 and s02 to perfectly answer your question but i really don’t have the time :( so, sorry, this will be fleshed out very quickly from my memories and i might be wrong or have forgotten stuff

i am also going to base this answer based nick mohammed’s tweet. he made very good points in those tweets that you can see here and so i’m gonna make a very small list below. it’s my own interpretation and of course, it could have been resolved with better communication and that’s “la faute à pas de chance” like i’d say in french:

the moment when nate said he’s gonna take care of isaac’s situation and ted kindly mocks him is truly offensive imo. it’s a light joke, i am aware of it but small jokes hurt the most. nobody pays attention to them but the person who receives it is deeply impacted by it. ted rubs it off as a pure joke and i think he could have let nate have a chance to prove he could do it!

nate has indeed acted super shitty this season and ted didn’t notice it. i am very well aware that it is none of ted’s business but shouldn’t friends notice when someone acts weird? shouldn’t it be a little concerning? ted asks multiple times to coach beard ‘is there an issue there?’ and coach beard says there isn’t. maybe ted could have checked it out a little bit more?

i think it’s also interesting that we never saw a lot emotional conversations between nate and ted. ted has a lot between jamie, roy, rebecca but with nate (except for the one time ted apologises to him), there was never a defining moment where you could feel them bonding? i don’t think they ever talked about nate’s dad or anything else than football so it’s always been a work relationship somehow?

ted is a lovely human being but i think that sometimes he is so good that when he messes up, people get more disappointed. remember at the beginning of s02 when sam tells him his dad is glad he’s their coach because he could never do something to hurt them? and then ted calls jamie - the one person who mercilessly bullied sam throughout s01 and that sam never wanted to see him again - and you can see in sam’s eyes he was slightly disappointed as soon as jamie walked in the pitch? ted knew it would hurt sam and he did anyway and i’m glad he did because jamie grew up so much this season and jamie and sam became friends and that’s amazing! but imagine if he did not and remained a selfish imbecile? it would have been so hard for sam :/

and so ted inviting roy to the coaching staff without letting nate know first was kinda similar imo. nate must have felt pushed away (and AGAIN, not ted’s fault, nate’s feelings overwhelmed him) because no one asked him his opinion about that while they’re all supposed to be a team

ted and coach beard are two peas in a pod. they get along extremely well and share the same braincell somehow? their difference make their strength and they’re just a dream team. i think in ted’s mind, nate has joined their special coaching team and. it’s all very natural and effortless to be with coach beard. sometimes they don’t talk and it’s fine cause they still don’t understand each other and so ted might think it’s the same thing with nathan? but it is not? nate needs communication (and reassurance - and yes it’s not great but a lot of people do) and ted doesn’t know about that. he’s been so used to coach beard’s quietness that he doesn’t realise it’s not the same for everyone - including nate!

ted also barely lets know of his struggles. he did them let know he has panic attacks but he mentions it so ‘casually’ with such confidence that it might be so confusing. honestly if someone came to me and was laughing and all smiley about a nervous breakdown, i’d think they’d have it all under control (which i know is messed up). where i’m trying to head with this is that nate probably feels like ted has everything under control and like it has been mentioned by other people, nate’s communication is strength. he wants to show he is good and so he doesn’t let know about ted about a bunch of stuff and his feelings because since ted doesn’t mention it, he shouldn’t either ...

also this is not a valid reason but i still wanted to point out that since the moment ted suggested nate to get a suit, each of nate’s suits has been TOO SMALL. i don’t know if it was made on purpose to show how awkward and clumsy he still was in a powerful outfit (if it was, it’s brilliant, rupert may have told him and it must have enraged nathan). anyway, TED SWEETIE YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD HIM THAT HIS JACKET WAS TOO TIGHT. IT’S BASIC DRESSING IN A SUIT 101.

so yeah, all of these points are just some quick thoughts gathered on the moment i’m sure i could be wrong and that there might have more things that will come up to me later. i want to say that i am very well aware that ted is not a mean person. i just wanted to point it that his positive nature is amazing but positiveness isn’t the key (i mean the movie inside out has perfectly explained how sadness can lead to happiness!) to everyone’s problems.

it was never ted’s attention to make nate feel that way. in a way, you can say that ted indeed has done nothing wrong because he did.... well... nothing?

but being passive in a relationship can do damages so yeah ted, i know you thought you did your best but nate needed more help, more than a little push (like jamie or roy) to get better. it was not your business, i know that but i know that if you knew all that, you’d have done more for nate because you deeply care about him and you wish nothing but the best for him :(

#anonymous #ted lasso #nate shelley #oh god this turned into a TED talk (lmao pardon the pun)#but yeah i just still feel very emotional for nathan and i'm angry that some people only hate him #while not trying to understand him. he messed up very bad but he had his reasons. were they good? def not #but it just rubs me wrongs that some people deck on him when the show's lesson is literally be curious not judgemental #meanwhile everyone's been judgemental and not curious about nate's situation #idk i feel empathy for him and i hope he'll have a great redemption arc!

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Bradley Zero’s record label Rhythm Section has enjoyed huge success since it was founded in Peckham in 2009. We chat to Bradley and MC Pinty, who’s about to release his second EP City Limits

Words: Emma Finamore; Photo: Lima Charlie

Peckham’s Rhythm Section started life as a radio show and dance in 2009, founded by DJ Bradley Zero. Next came an accompanying record label and its first release – Rye Lane Vol. 1 by Al Dobson Jnr – in 2014, and a nomination for Label of the Year at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide awards. Since then Bradley’s label has gone global, but an upcoming release shows how the dance’s tagline – ‘Peckham Strong’ – is still part of its DNA.

MC Pinty – a local MC and DJ – is putting out his second EP, City Limits, with Rhythm Section after his first independent release (Midnight Moods) in 2015. As well as keeping it local, the upcoming record shows how the dance remains central to the label’s output too. Pinty honed his skills on the mic at nights he used to hold under the arches at Loughborough Junction, and says the ambiance of these late-night parties and sounds of 4am streets permeate his new tracks.

"It was in such a sick place, round the corner from the flat where I was born actually,” he remembers of the dances he put on, aged just 19. “They were dope, some of the sickest time, and it was always such a good vibe. The guy that ran it was a real character, I think he was an old sound boy from around Brixton, so all his sound system was there and he was really careful about the set up. If there was something wrong he would get right onto it – someone that really cared about the sound. It was cool, very atmospheric."

Music was a core part of the Pinty’s youth. His brother – who tragically died in an accident in 2002 – was a garage MC during the golden years of UKG, and as a student at the Brit School he and his friends were surrounded by creativity. He and fellow attendees like Archy Marshall (aka King Krule or DJ JD Sports), Cosmo Pyke and Jamie Isaac were mates but also went on to become musical collaborators – a dynamic group of South London producers, singers, musicians and rappers.

"Music’s always been a part of me, I guess,” says Pinty. “I always had it around, and I was always into dance music more than anything else. Archy was the first one to put me on it [music]. He was like, 'You should do this, really. It feels like you've got something to say'."

The south London connection runs through much of his work. The first track he made – named Midnight Moods, like his club night and subsequent EP – was produced by DJ JD Sports, as is the City Limits EP, along with production from other south London producers. Pinty also went on to do shows on local Peckham/Brixton stations Balamii and Reprezent with Cosmo Pyke and DJ Maxwell Owin, another local artist.

"We go back-to-back, it's basically my favourite thing to do, pretty much, that show,” he explains, of his ‘Second To None’ Sunday evening show on Reprezent with Owin – a South London producer and bassist. “I always look forward to that show, we've got great energy and just bounce around the studio. We both get so immersed in the music we're just jumping around."

Pinty has been making waves with his live performances too: he’s played in Paris with hip-hop star Rejji Snow, at Glastonbury Festival with Sub Luna City (a King Krule project), and with RATKING – an experimental, punk-inspired hip-hop crew from New York.

Now – having been brought into the Rhythm Section family after meeting founder Bradley Zero at a festival – he’s hoping the new EP will create more waves. While Pinty’s 2015 debut had a distinctly garage flavour, City Limits takes his sound in a new, house and dance-led direction.

He explains: "A lot of the beats on the next EP are pretty four-on-the-floor [a rhythm pattern associated with dance music] so I think this is going to separate from the earlier stuff. The sound is kind of ‘housey’ street sounds with a lot of lyricism in there. And that's the thing about the project that's different - I'm trying to help people see that house isn't just some straight party, mostly white, Berlin stuff. There's substance and realness to it too.

"It's just my story: where I've come from, what I've seen and what I've been through. There’s a night-time element to it too, like when you're walking back through a dusty street when there's no one around…the night bus home. I'm definitely trying to get away from that garage MC gimmick – I think it is quite a gimmick sometimes.”

Pinty says he’s been influenced by everything from ‘Escape (The Piña Colada Song)’ by Rupert Holmes to The Streets – anything with a story. "Stories just grip me, I guess,” he explains. “When I realised 'A Grand Don't Come For Free' [a sort of rap opera – The Streets' second album] was a whole story in itself, I thought that was amazing. I've always found storytelling really interesting. "

This love of narrative is particularly poignant on City Limits' final track. "It's the definitive track on the album," says Pinty. It includes samples of his brother MCing, alongside snippets of a conversation with his brothers' mate – south London photographer Andrew Gillman – who Pinty interviewed a few years ago about their shared loss. "It comes out really nice," he says. "It was quite eerie making it though, kind of dark. But it is quite a special thing. It was nice to be able to sit down and record it, but then to use it in a special way too."

The pair spoke for two hours, reminiscing, and Pinty says that while it's taken time for him to be able to talk about his loss, recording with his friend and putting the track together was therapeutic. The EP's title is also loaded with meaning – connected with a group of Pinty's brother's friends – making it an especially personal body of work.

Pinty plans to tour off the back of his upcoming release, and says he’ll be putting out more new music as soon as possible after City Limits. "That's the plan,” he says. “I've waited so long – after this I want to just keep pushing stuff out more man."

Bradley Zero sees the release as a natural partnership for Rhythm Section: “As the label has grown we’ve released music from all over the world, but the genesis of the label – as well as the ongoing focus – has always been Peckham. We’ve played a role in establishing local acts such as Henry Wu, Chaos in the CBD and FYI Chris so the idea of working with Pinty was immediately considered.

“Musically, our influences align on the crossroads of house, hip-hop and UK sound system Culture. Much like our debut effort from Al Dobson Jnr, Pinty’s style takes influence from a wide palette of sounds to create something uniquely his own. Long story short, Pinty’s style, sound and story has 'Rhythm Section' written all over it!”

Peckham holds a really important place in Bradley’s heart, which is why continuing to put out music by innovative artists from the area – like Pinty – is especially vital to him. “We host our seventh anniversary dance in November – how time flies! It all started in Peckham,” he explains. “The label and the party weren’t born out of a business plan; they where born out of a community, and everything we’ve produced so far is a product of that community.

“My musical journey began here, whether honing my burgeoning skills on the decks of Bar Story every Friday night, hosting my first ever radio show on Reprezent from its original Asylum Road studios, or putting on my first ever party in Canavan’s. While the music and the message has begun to spread its wings around the world, Rhythm Section will always be rooted in Peckham.

“Before the Overground came, people didn’t often venture south of the river and folk who lived down here tended not to leave so often, so we got what I like to call the ‘ pressure cooker effect’. The musicians and artists based in Peckham felt largely disconnected from what was going on elsewhere, so we made our own fun, collaborated heavily and eventually the word got out.”

For Bradley, pushing forward home grown talent is important in maintaining some of Peckham’s individuality, and he talks about broader things like rent controls to help protect longstanding residents and businesses from being pushed out. “There is a genuine community here that cares deeply about what goes on and how the area grows,” he explains. “We must nurture and this, and champion the independent spirit of our community.” City Limits – in its reflection of south London nightlife and demonstration of south London talent – will do just this.

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Nature From Wall Street to K Street, Companies Gauge the Risks of Doing Business With Saudi Arabia

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WASHINGTON — The mysterious disappearance and possible murder of a Saudi journalist in Turkey is reverberating from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to Washington’s K Street, with lobbyists, financiers, high-tech executives and media figures confronting the risk of doing business with Saudi Arabia when it is under harsh scrutiny for its role in the case.

One of the roughly 10 lobbying firms that represent the Saudi government, the Harbour Group, has dropped it as a client, and others are considering following suit, according to people familiar with discussions, as Saudi Arabia struggles with a backlash over allegations that it murdered the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

The lobbying firms are privately discussing how to proceed, these people said. But some have already decided that the prospect of continued paychecks from Saudi Arabia — once a prized and profitable client — is not worth the risk to their reputations.

The Harbour Group, which was being paid $80,000 a month to represent the Saudi Embassy in Washington, sent a letter on Thursday ending its contract, said Richard Mintz, the firm’s managing director.

Several news outlets, including The New York Times, canceled their participation in a government-sponsored investor conference in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in two weeks, where the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is expected to speak. The Los Angeles Times and The Economist also announced they would not attend.

But for financial and technology companies, several of which have multibillion-dollar ties to Saudi Arabia, the calculus is more complicated. Few executives have backed out of the conference, which is called the Future Investment Initiative but is known colloquially as Davos in the Desert.

Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, was one of the few to announce that they would back out.

“Unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won’t be attending,” he said in a statement late Thursday night.

The company’s relationship with the Saudis is also perhaps one of the most complex. The Public Investment Fund, a large Saudi sovereign wealth fund, invested $3.5 billion for a 5.6 percent share in Uber in June 2016. The fund’s managing director, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, took a seat on Uber’s board. Prince Mohammed is the chairman of the Public Investment Fund.

Last year, SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications conglomerate, purchased a large stake in Uber as well, and took two seats on the company’s board. SoftBank’s Vision Fund investment arm is largely backed by capital from the Public Investment Fund.

By contrast, the Blackstone Group, the large private equity firm in which the Public Investment Fund has invested more than $2.3 billion and committed a total of $20 billion to a new Blackstone fund, plans to stay involved in the meeting, according to two people familiar with the firm’s plans.

Blackstone’s chief executive, Stephen A. Schwarzman, remains an advisory board member and is expected to speak at the conference, which is held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, where Prince Mohammed locked up hundreds of wealthy Saudis last year in what he called an anti-corruption campaign but critics said was an effort to crush dissent.

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, is also still planning to attend, according to people familiar with his schedule. JPMorgan has done business in Saudi Arabia since the 1930s, opened an office in Riyadh in 2006 and employs about 70 people in the country.

Other executives with ties to the prince’s initiative are either cutting those ties or keeping their distance.

Mellody Hobson, the president of the firm Ariel Investments, said she resigned from the advisory board, though she had not planned to attend the conference.

Peter Thiel, the technology venture capitalist who was once an ally of President Trump and is known for his independent streak, is still a member of the event’s advisory board but had never planned to attend the gathering, according to a person close to Mr. Thiel.

Richard Branson, the billionaire British entrepreneur, said that he had suspended his directorship at two tourism projects near the Red Sea and that his space ventures would halt their discussions over proposed investments from the Public Investment Fund.

The allegations, if proved true, he said in a statement, “would clearly change the ability of any of us in the West to do business with the Saudi government.”

With Mr. Khashoggi’s fate so unclear and so little information available, anxious executives called experts on Saudi Arabia for advice on whether to cancel their flights to Riyadh. One former government official now in the international consulting sector in Washington said she fielded calls all day from chief executives and their top aides seeking counsel.

At least one executive called the White House directly. Officials there said they were not offering advice, though Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is still planning to attend, according to his department.

The Saudi government has denied it had any involvement in Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance after he entered its consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkish officials insist that Mr. Khashoggi was killed in the consulate on the orders of officials high in the Saudi royal court.

The Times said on Wednesday that it had canceled a media partnership with the conference. Andrew Ross Sorkin, a business columnist for the paper and an anchor at CNBC, announced Thursday that he had also pulled out, saying on Twitter, “I’m terribly distressed by the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and reports of his murder.”

The editor in chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes, said she would not attend, as did the owner of The Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong. Arianna Huffington, the author and co-founder of HuffPost, said she, too, would no longer take part.

It is notable that the queasiness about Saudi Arabia has spread to K Street, the lobbyists’ corridor, since even clients with the most toxic reputations are normally able to secure representation if their checks clear.

Saudi Arabia has been a coveted client, thanks to its reputation for paying above-market rates and its status as one of the United States’ most reliable allies in an unstable region, which seemed cemented by the ties between Prince Mohammed and the Trump administration.

The debates about dropping the Saudi account also reflect the skittishness of the lobbying industry at a time when it has faced mounting scrutiny from federal investigators, including the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, about how foreign interests try to shape American politics and policy.

The highest-paid firms representing the Saudis in Washington are the international public affairs consultancy Qorvis MSLGroup, which is being paid $279,500 a month, and the Glover Park Group, which was started by former Clinton administration officials and is being paid $150,000 a month, according to filings with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Another two firms are being paid $125,000 a month — Hogan Lovells, which has Norm Coleman, a former senator of Minnesota, as its point person for Saudi work, and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which has a bipartisan team composed of Marc S. Lampkin, a former aide to the former House speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, and Alfred E. Mottur, a top fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Not all of these firms will drop the Saudis. Some are leaning toward maintaining their contracts, in part because they predict that if they were to abandon the country en masse, it could lead to reduced cooperation from the Saudi government.

Mark Landler and Kenneth P. Vogel reported from Washington, and Kate Kelly from New York. Eric Schmitt and Alan Rappeport contributed reporting from Washington, David Streitfeld and Mike Isaac from San Francisco, Michael M. Grynbaum from New York and Carlos Tejada from Hong Kong.

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Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, was one of the few to announce that they would back out.

“Unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won’t be attending,” he said in a statement late Thursday night.

Other executives with ties to the prince’s initiative are either cutting those ties or keeping their distance.

Mellody Hobson, the president of the firm Ariel Investments, said she resigned from the advisory board, though she had not planned to attend the conference.

The allegations, if proved true, he said in a statement, “would clearly change the ability of any of us in the West to do business with the Saudi government.”

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Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, was one of the few to announce that they would back out.

“Unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won’t be attending,” he said in a statement late Thursday night.

Other executives with ties to the prince’s initiative are either cutting those ties or keeping their distance.

Mellody Hobson, the president of the firm Ariel Investments, said she resigned from the advisory board, though she had not planned to attend the conference.

The allegations, if proved true, he said in a statement, “would clearly change the ability of any of us in the West to do business with the Saudi government.”

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Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, was one of the few to announce that they would back out.

“Unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won’t be attending,” he said in a statement late Thursday night.

Other executives with ties to the prince’s initiative are either cutting those ties or keeping their distance.

Mellody Hobson, the president of the firm Ariel Investments, said she resigned from the advisory board, though she had not planned to attend the conference.

The allegations, if proved true, he said in a statement, “would clearly change the ability of any of us in the West to do business with the Saudi government.”

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Jamie Marsh’s 1993 Ford Mustang Fox-body is a Roush Stage 3 Tribute

“The car was built to be a reliable driver, while still handling the occasional autocross or track day,” says Jamie Marsh from Lancaster, South Carolina. “The upgraded brakes and springs, along with the added power of the supercharger, have made the car a fast, reliable weekend warrior.”

Jamie’s Fox-body started life as your run of the mill Performance White 5.0 LX hatchback with an AOD. Since the car first rolled into the dealership brand new, this 1993 5.0 LX has always been a part of Jamie’s life. It all started senior year of high school when his best friend, Isaac Rush, received the then brand-new Fox-body as a graduation present. Jamie even tagged along to the dealership with him to pick it up. Senior year was full of memories in the Fox-body, and after that Isaac used it to commute to and from Wilmington for college for several years after that.

During those college years, the LX fell victim to wheel thieves, and at the expense of the insurance company, Jamie’s friend opted to forego the standard silver ponies, and ordered some factory summer edition white ponies as a replacement.

Not completely content with the Pony R wheels, he vigorously searched for a set of 1999-2004 18-inch Roush wheels to complete the 1993 RS3 look. After a long search, he found a set of flaking 18×9 Roush wheels that he completely stripped down and refinished in a shade of white that almost perfect matches the 20-plus year old factory color.

After college graduation in Wilmington, the car made its way to Virginia Beach. Always wanting a five-speed manual, the car was retired from daily driving duties and was swapped over using a fresh factory Ford T-5Z with all accompanying hardware. Soon it was sporting FRPP B springs, FRPP shorty headers, 3G alternator, Kenny Brown subframe connectors, and 3.73 gears. The interior was given an Auto Meter Ultra-lite amp; oil; and water gauges below the radio; and a FRPP shift knob.

As most of us know, life goes on and time changes things. Isaac was soon was engaged, and he lost interest in the car. Jamie purchased the car from him in 2008. “I had just wrecked my Honda autocross/road race car, and was looking to mod this thing to autocross and track,” Jamie explains.

Getting straight to work, Jamie swapped over to 1995 front spindles and hubs and fitted the front with 13-inch Cobra brakes and installed 5-lug drums on the rear. For better handling, he added Steeda competition springs and caster camber plates from Maximum Motorsports. He then swapped out the shorty headers for MAC longtubes, a MAC 2.5-inch x-pipe, and one-chamber Flowmaster mufflers and tailpipes. To set off the exterior, he went with a set of Chrome 2003 Cobra wheels.

Fast forward to 2010, and Isaac expressed interest in buying the car back. “I had other projects at the time, and didn’t mind one bit,” Jamie said. Isaac requested a set of factory Ford Bullitt wheels in place of the chrome 2003 Cobras, and Jamie was happy to help.

Three years had gone by, Jamie’s longtime buddy decided to buy some land and build a house and the car was offered back to Jamie yet again. “In April of 2013, I drove the car through snow and crazy weather to bring the car back home to stay this time. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the car, but I did have a polished Vortech SQ supercharger that was intended for a previous project, so that was a definitely part of the master plan,” Jamie tells us.

Right around the same time, another good friend had picked up an old Roush intake at the Autofair in Charlotte, North Carolina, from Sam at Out to Pasture Pony Parts. “None of us really knew anything about it, but I did know this would make the perfect centerpiece for my build,” Jamie says. “We hadn’t seen one in person, and I was able to talk my friend out of it and started researching. Luckily, the intake was mostly complete. It still had some of the key pieces to make it work.”

The metal gaskets were intact, as well as the intake specific fuel rail. With it being set up for a supercharger, Jamie knew it was meant to be. After doing some digging, he found out that the intake was taken from a 1995 Roush Stage 3 Mustang out of a performance shop in California. It also sported serial number 0007 out of just 100 of these intakes produced.

“According to a reputable Roush forum, only 18 were put on Roush turnkey cars, hence the serial numbers,” Jamie explains. “The remaining intakes were put on sale to the public but didn’t sell well due to the price. They sold kits to fit Fox cars, but were mainly intended for the 1994-1995 models.” That’s when Jamie found out that he had a rare piece on his hands.

The initial plan was to install the Roush intake with the Vortech SQ supercharger and leave the car stock otherwise, but then he thought, “How is anyone going to know about my special piece of history under the hood?” That’s when the idea came to life of building the car around the Roush intake and to make his very own version of what a Roush Stage 3 may have looked like back in 1993 if Jack Roush had made a turnkey car.

“The first step, the installation of the intake, was more difficult than anticipated,” Jamie said. The intake was huge, and it required things that had to be procured that he wasn’t aware of until after they had started the process. Jamie and a friend decided to do the install a week before Mustang Week 2013, and they ended up pushing hard to get it finished. For the intake to work on the Fox, it needed two 1994-1995 style valve covers without oil fill holes, a 1994-1995 throttle linkage, and TPS.

“I had very little time and was lucky enough for Mike at East Coast Mustang to get me everything that I needed,” says Jamie. “Along with the intake, we installed GT40 heads reworked by Kannapolis Engine Service, a MSD Digital 6AL, a Contour dual fan setup, an upgraded aluminum radiator, 340lph in-tank fuel pump, 42 lb/hr injectors, the previously mentioned Vortech SQ supercharger, and an Auto Meter boost gauge mounted Roush-style in the AC vent.

After that, Jamie added 1995 Cobra 11.65-inch rear brakes to complement the front 13-inch Cobra brakes already in place. To tie everything together, Rob from Powercurve Motorsports got the car in at the last minute and got it tuned and ready just in the nick of time for Mustang Week. While there, the car made 419 horsepower and 401 lb-ft torque, even with the stock cam and stock rockers.

After the week full of Mustangs and sunshine in Myrtle Beach, Jamie decided it was time finish off the look. He purchased a set of Corbeau LG1 seats and harnesses, and Matt at Fox Mustang Restoration rewrapped the rear seats in matching fabric.

Fast forward to Mustang Week 2015, Jamie submitted a photo and a short description to Gibson exhaust as they were searching for a display car. Jamie was lucky enough to display his Roush tribute Fox-body as their Mustang Week display car to show off their new BMF muffler series. “Gibson exhaust sent me a pre-production handmade set of their new BMF mufflers before Mustang Week, and the car was started and revved numerous times during the event, and everyone loved the sound,” Jamie tells us.

In the summer of 2016, he was contacted by Mike Rey, the marketing director for Roush, who had seen his car at Mustang Week and offered a personal invitation for Jamie’s car to be displayed at the Mustang Memories show at the Ford World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. The car would sit in a special section dedicated to 40 years of Roush. “I was beside myself, but knew that the 11-hour drive, hotel and traveling expenses, and time off work were probably more than I could afford, and I had to politely turn him down. As soon as a couple of friends heard about the opportunity, they told me that I had to go. They graciously helped me with the expenses, and we made the August trip. It was awesome to be parked right next to the Roush trailer in my creation with these other beautiful Roush cars,” Jamie said. Jamie was presented with the Roush sponsor award for the show.

The biggest highlight Jamie’s build came earlier this year at a Roush Fenway fan appreciation day. He had taken the day off to attend the event hoping to take a piece off his car for Jack Roush himself to sign. Upon arrival, he was told to park in a grassy area, which required driving over a 3-inch concrete curb. Jamie knew the car couldn’t make it over and tried to back out of it. After some trouble with the parking attendant, Jamie ran into Lyle Sturgis from Tindol Ford, one of the key organizers of the event, and he recognized the car. Lyle told Jamie to go ahead and park beside the other Roush Mustangs at the event. “All of the actual parking spots were full so Lyle directed me right between the display and the other Mustangs, and then asked if I would like Jack Roush to sign my car. I couldn’t say yes fast enough!”

Jack was going to be spending a few moments with each Roush owner and sign their cars. Jack went down the row of newly purchased Roush Mustangs and as he reached Jamie’s car, his first words were, “I don’t remember building this car.”

“Lyle introduced me to Mr. Roush, and I began to explain to him what I had done. He told me the car looked good, and that I had done a good job. He then went on to sign my dash and Roush intake.” Jamie explains. “I knew at that moment that I had done something right.” A big thank you goes to out his high school friend Isaac for selling him the car and giving a great starting point for his creation, longtime friend Billy White and his dad Rick White for their help turning wrenches, East Coast Mustang’s Mustang Mike for the hard to find parts, Kannapolis Engine Service for the great work on the heads, and Rob at Powercurve Motorsports for a reliable and safe tune, his wife, Barrie, and son, Cooper, for having patience with his hobby, and last but not least, thank you to all the members of Southeastern Foxbodies for all of the support and friendships.

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