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About

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Let me start by telling you a lot about myself. I have over thirty years of experience in the automotive world; many of those years I spent as a professional mechanic and automotive machinist. I’ve owned small shops, worked in large dealerships, under shade trees, and occasionally on the side of the road. I have personally owned over one hundred cars. I have raced them, built them, rebuilt, fixed, driven, crashed them into each other, painted, admired, loathed, respected, maintained, cursed, loved, customized, rented, hot-roded, toured, researched, lusted after, made fun of, drawn pictures of, slept in, bought, sold, and bought again, CARS. I’ve also done most of these things to or with other people’s cars. About the only thing I haven’t done with a car is stolen one.
 
"I was born with gasoline in my DNA; my first word spoken was “Truck”. Seriously, it was. Some say it’s a sickness, but since there are no telethons or charities to help me, I decided it was a passion".

I grew up in the sixty’s in Southern California where the car just seemed to be a part of everything: drive in restaurants, drive through stores, drive in movies, and drive through car washes. The Car Culture just seemed to be the base line for modern human existence. A freeway or road to get anywhere, a parking lot everywhere, new car lots, used car lots, auto parts stores, gas stations on every corner, race tracks, drag strips, speed shops, and custom car shows every week end. I had no choice, do to Location and mutated brain cells (from overexposure to paint and gas fumes) along with just enough tools, combined to make me the gear-head I am today.

I now live in the high desert of Arizona where I build Cars, Motorcycles, and Metal Art. I spend more waking hours on the subject of cars than anything else in my life. I built this website to share my passion for all things mechanical, with whoever is willing to subject them selves to my twisted out look of the world. My goal is to make everyone smile at least once while they visit my world, or at the very least tilt their head with confusion, or pity.
 
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