[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\nGale gave away a car earlier this year, too \u2014 a 1956 Buick Roadmaster.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it is a business,\u201d Gale said of Big Daddy. \u201cBut it\u2019s also a hobby of love when you sit there and make other people\u2019s dreams come true. It\u2019s pretty neat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Philanthropy became part of the business model at Big Daddy\u00a0after a series of life-threatening health episodes.<\/p>\n
Gale got into general contracting because he was attracted to the potential for profit. The first job, he recalled, was eventful. \u201cAnd I hate to say it this way, but I just faked it until I made it. I’m very particular and I’m all about customer service. I think that’s what’s wrong with businesses today. No one emphasizes customer service. And that’s all I emphasize.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has built both businesses on the ethos that, \u201cNo one takes care of your business better than you. I mean, I work seven days a week and my phone is on 24 hours a day.\u201d<\/p>\n
That kind of schedule is probably, at least partially, to blame for heart ailments that have put his life at risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of my employees on the construction side, they called me \u2018Catman\u2019 because I should have died several times over the last 10 years,\u201d Gale said. \u201cIt really opened my eyes up to how short life is and how we should be trying to help our neighbor instead of just ignoring our neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n
It began with a perilous night. Gale had a major heart attack, and several episodes followed through the course of the night. Stents and complications followed. He puts the number of heart attacks he has had at 12.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, he had a triple-bypass procedure. More recently, he appeared on the path to a heart transplant until a lymphoma diagnosis took him right off the list.<\/p>\n
Doctors have prescribed a watch-and-wait approach rather than attacking the slow-growing cancer with treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said if you\u2019re going to have cancer, that\u2019s the cancer you want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He is still working late into the night, despite his family\u2019s pleas for him to slow down. The businesses \u2014 his passions \u2014 give him reason to move forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife keeps saying, dying isn\u2019t an option,\u201d Gale said. \u201cWe have three kids at home \u2014 15, 14, and 12 \u2014 I\u2019ve got to make sure I’m around.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is clearly where Paul Gale belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a gearhead gathering over the weekend at the 32nd annual Summit Racing Goodguys car show at Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,138268,138269,138267,9604,7371,7372,13814,256,358,62581,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-264711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-automotive-innovation","10":"tag-big-daddy-custom-cars-hot-rods-and-hogs","11":"tag-car-culture","12":"tag-entrepreneurs","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-john-henry","16":"tag-philanthropy","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-motor-speedway","19":"tag-top-story","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115289519940781244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}