George is one of the most active TFOT members. He has a rule of thumb: if the event is 50 miles or less from his house, he drives the T there; anything more, he uses his trailer. It had been love at first sight when George saw his first Model T Center Door sedan, but it would be over ten years before he acquired one of his own. There was just something about the design and style that called to him as he built a successful chain of independent pet stores in San Antonio following a full career in the Air Force where he was a Chief Master Sergeant. When he and his wife decided he was now in a secure enough position to acquire one, he discovered how rare center door Ts were. He chased every lead, showing up to buy one in Houston only to find he had missed it by less than an hour.

Finally, in March of 2000, he went all the way to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and purchased a dilapidated old wreck that hadn't been run in forty years and was being used to store eggs in a barn. But it looked good enough to George, and he had the engine running well enough to participate in a Shriner parade by May the same year, despite the lack of window glass. By his own description, he did not get serious about doing a full restoration until 2007, when it was found that every piece of wood in the frame that supports the metal exterior was rotten. And not only that, being so rare, there is no such thing as a commercially available kit for these cars. George considers the investment to do a ground up restoration to be worth every penny, and judges at shows ten to agree. The unique style of the car, with it's oval round window, tends to attract first prizes like flies.

What started out as a relatively small engine rebuild with minor body work at Julius Neuhoffer's shop in Kerrville soon developed into a full blown ground up restoration. The engine was both incorrect and kaput, the chassis was neither straight nor true and both had to be replaced. It then turned out that almost every piece of wood in the body was rotten and replacements would have to be scratch built, as there are no kits available for such a low volume Model T. 36 months later, and enough time, money and effort to stun an ox, George got his center door T back in better than new condition.