Kirkham Car for Primary Children's Hospital

[David Kirkham]

Fellow Car Nuts:

A few weeks ago a friend of mine came by and was looking at the pictures and magazine articles we have on the walls here at our shop. He noticed the cars we have donated over the years to various charitable organizations. He asked if we had ever thought about donating a car to Primary Children's Hospital. Every year Primary Children's Hospital does a fundraiser with the Festival of the Trees and KSL is a major sponsor of the Festival. He just retired as the general manager of KSL, the main Utah news organization, and so he has been deeply involved for years with the organization for years. www.festivaloftreesutah.org

He then described to me the incredible things they do there at the hospital. They do hundreds of thousands of visits and procedures every year--many of them for children from all over who can't pay. For the fundraiser, local charitable organizations, businesses, and local families buy trees and decorate them, then auction the trees off for the hospital. Some of you here will remember the first car we donated was to another hospital, the hospital at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks in New York.

Back in March Glenn Beck asked people to remember how they felt after 9/11 and to use the 912 "principles and values to solve some of the problems of the day?"

A couple of months ago, my 13 year old son asked me why people were in wheel chairs. I talked to him about spinal injury, from accident, birth, or illness, that can cause paraylsis. He asked if they could be cured. I told him, "Not yet, but they are working on it with stem cell research, gene therapy, and many other techniques." He then told me he wanted to find a cure so those people could walk again.

I then saw the thread here on CC on "Paying it Forward" www.clubcobra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100608 and it got me thinking it was time to donate another car. The Festival of the Trees seems like a good place to donate.

My brother and I are thinking there are a lot of kids at Primary Children's Hospital here in Salt Lake City that need help. Even in a bum economy, kids still need chemo, x-rays, and wheel-chairs. My brother and I decided Santa could probably use 600 horses to pull his sleigh and give his reindeer a breather. I hope some of those children could put them to good use.

Anyone who would like to donate to the build would be greatly appreciated!


UPDATE:

I've set up a page with a button where you can make donations to the Primary Children's Hospital car build. Thank you all very much for asking for this.

http://www.kirkhammotorsports.com/charity/

* Enter your donation amount and hit the update button FIRST. All other information on the page will be wiped when updating the donation amount.
* Any donation receipts PCH gives us will be mailed to the address given on the first page.
* We can't promise tax exempt status for any of these donations, PCH folks say probably, but YMMV, check with accountant, who knows?
* If you're donating by PayPal, please use this button. All donations are specially flagged as "donation" and it will make accounting much easier for us.
* We will, of course, still accept parts, cash, checks sent however you like.

Thank you again.

For those unfamiliar with the Primary Children's Hospital, here's Wikipedia's description.
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David

[lovehamr]

David, good on you guys! Are you setting up a paypal account or something of that nature? I'm in.

Steve

[David Kirkham]

Originally Posted by lovehamr

David, good on you guys! Are you setting up a paypal account or something of that nature? I'm in.

Steve

Good idea! I'll get Steve to do that when he gets back.

David


Donations so far:

Penske Shocks--Penske
Transmission--Standard Transmission
Radiator--Steve Long

[rustyBob]

Thanks David........if you go back to the original "pay it foward" thread on page 4 post 54 i had made the suggestion of doing something for charity but nobody paid any attention to me but i dont have the pull you have ........so thanks again for the charity work and if theres anything i can do please let me know.....

[Justin O'Rourke]

Hi David; That sounds like a great thing to do. I will get a Postal M.O. out to you tomorrow. Regards, Justin

[OCCOBRA]

David,
Count me in for $100.00 toward the build. Just post where to send the check, made out to whom
Dane

[David Kirkham]

Originally Posted by rustyBob

Thanks David........if you go back to the original "pay it foward" thread on page 4 post 54 i had made the suggestion of doing something for charity but nobody paid any attention to me but i dont have the pull you have ........so thanks again for the charity work and if theres anything i can do please let me know.....

I jumped into that thread late, so I probably missed your post. We all need to pull together here. We all have pull and if we pull together we can make the world a better place. Thanks for jumping on board.

David

[David Kirkham]

Originally Posted by Justin O'Rourke

Hi David; That sounds like a great thing to do. I will get a Postal M.O. out to you tomorrow. Regards, Justin

Thanks Justin! And, thanks for helping on the first 9/11 car in NY. This is a great site!

David

[mike55]

Originally Posted by David Kirkham

I jumped into that thread late, so I probably missed your post. We all need to pull together here. We all have pull and if we pull together we can make the world a better place. Thanks for jumping on board.

David

...me too. Lot's of people in this world need that bit of help, kind gesture, or words of thanks. It's a good thing you're doing and it appears it will get lots of attention. Good luck.

[Igofastr]

I'm in, just tell me where to send the money.

[David Kirkham]

KMP0623 is the Primary Children's car. As you can see, we have a lot to do before Tuesday!

[David Kirkham]

We are setting up a donate button right now.

Thanks!

David

[David Kirkham]

Here we are cutting the exhaust head tubes. We form them in jigs and then cut off the excess. Remember, the FE has a square port so we have to turn the round head tubes into squares.

[marcalan]

My hat is off to you David and Tom. I am truly humbled by your generosity. When the donation chain is set up, I will help out with what I can.

m-a

[jhv48]

How about this.

We all donate $$ to help with the build and then you raffle/auction off the car (say you charge $100 per ticket and limit the tickets to 1000 tickets, or some other number that you can live with) and donate the $$$ to the charity.

That way, we will help with the cost of the build and then some lucky SOB will end up with the car and the kids will get the $$$.

When the FFR forum took donations to help with the cost of the CS lawsuit, they collected between $20k-$30k from their forum members. I would like to think that we could do a lot better than that.

Ideas, anyone?

[dcdoug]

Please give us the link when you get the donate button set up.

[Tom Kirkham]

The Festival of Trees is a silent auction. See
http://www.festivaloftreesutah.org/content/?page=32

[David Kirkham]

Originally Posted by marcalan

My hat is off to you David and Tom. I am truly humbled by your generosity. When the donation chain is set up, I will help out with what I can.

m-a

Thanks! I am working with Computerworks right now to get the button set up.

David

[David Kirkham]

jhv48

We have already committed to Primary Children's for this car.

David

[Hexnut72]

Dave,

Maybe a list of items that people can purchase to donate to the car?

The stuff that Kirkhams make is not as difficult for you to provide. The other stuff like brakes, wheels, tires, seat belts, steering wheel, battery, switches, mirror etc... may be where people can step in.

Can you make a list of these types of items with price and we can start knocking them out?