Personal Profile
I am an "Old School" guy. I've been driving cars and trucks since I was seven years old. Being of Hispanic decent most of my uncles serviced their own cars and like old folktales that's how I developed my skills over the years. As I got older, my mother may she rest in peace, a single parent, was finding hard to rein me in. She sent me to live with her older brother, my Uncle Jake. He was a machinist for NorthWestern Glass and that is where the car enthusiasm began! Below is a chronology of all the classics I've owned and worked on.
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1956 Chevy Belair
I remember hounding my uncle Jake that I wanted car. He told me you can drive my truck. My uncle Jake had a sweet ass ride! It was a 1963 Ford F100 SWB with a 223 engine and three on the tree. similar to the one pictured below, except his was a baby blue color with white spoke rims. Well he told me, "you want a car, ok I'll get you a car. We went looking around at cars. I saw a 1957 Chevrolet Belair convertible but that was too much money. So he told me one day, I found a car for you. Let's go pick it up. It was a 1956 Chevrolet Belair 210-2door hardtop, it was primer gray and everything had been stripped from it since it was used for the 1/4 mile. I remember telling him, "It doesn't have an engine nor transmission, No mames! How am I supposed to get around in that. He told me was working on it. The following week he shows up with a donor car. It was a 1967 Chevrolet Impala with a 327HO with a power glide tranny. Needless too say, traded out the power glide for a 350 turbo. I can tell you I lost a lot of skin and hair trying to figure out the electrical,but I did it. There was no
freaking Youtube or Google back in them days, just those thick a$$
Chilton Car Bibles!
1965 Chevelle
This was the first car I purchased with my own money. It was my 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle. It was equipped with a 250 in-line 6 cylinder with a three speed floor shifter. It was a sweet ride. Drove this around for several years as my daily driver.
1978 El Camino
This was the second vehicle I purchased with my own money. It was a souped up 1978 El Camino with a modified 305, 4BBL Holley with Holley aluminum intake with a TH350 transmission with a WICKED shift kit. Talk about TORQUE! I left to California for a year and when I got back my El Camino was crying bloody murder. My sister and my foster brother Jose Benavides aka Piscapo had drove it into the ground drag racing it at the Edinburg Speedway! I was like WTF!!
1973 Fiat 124 Spyder
This was the third car I purchased with my own money. I got two for the price of one. The guy I purchased it from had them shipped from Germany. It was a fun ride. It had a pull choke for cruise control and dual overhead cams. Instead of a rag top it had T-Tops like the Trans Ams and Pontiac Solstice.
1980 RX-7
This was the fourth car I purchased was a 1980 Mazda RX-7. Damn, I loved the speed of this car. It had acceleration of the line and would eat Acura's for breakfast, lunch and dinner and competed with Porsche's all day long.
1977 Pontiac Trans-AM 6.6L
This was the fifth classic I purchased was a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am with the 6.6L engine. I traded my 1980 Mazda RX-7 for the Trans AM. It came with power windows, power locks, and glass t-tops. It was a sweet car.
1955 Chevy Apache 3100
This was the sixth classic I purchased was a 1955 Chevrolet Apache 3100 Short bed pickup. It had a 350 with a TH350 transmission and original rear end. I shit canned the rear end and replaced it with a donor from a 1980 Chevy Blazer 4x4. I later transplanted the 350 from my 1975 Nova SS into this truck. It would sit there and spin tire all day long. This was my daily driver for a long time, from June 1988 to the last time I drove it about June - July 1992-1993. I still have it, but the elements got to it. Slowly but surely restoring her.
1969 Chevy Chevelle
This was the seventh classic I purchased was a 1969 Chevy Chevelle with a small block 400 with a TH400 tranny. with posi-trac. They termed it the I-ROC Z Killer. It was wicked FAST!! It came with black leather interior it was one SWEET ASS RIDE! I sold it to my AWESOME Uncle Johnny, en paz descanses, RIP, for $600.
1980 Chevy Monte Carlo
This was the eighth classic car I owned. It was a 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. I can't remember what engine it had either the V-8 or the V6, I can't recall. I just remember as soon as I bought it for $200. I took off to San Antonio in 1992 or 1993. Sold it to my then brother-in-law Noe Ramon.
1969 Chevy C-10 SWB
This was the ninth classic I owned was a 1969 Chevy C-10 short bed fleetside. It had a 250 inline 6 cylinder with three on the tree. This was a sweet little ride. Should have kept it, sold it for $700.
1991 Chevy Silverado
My 1991 OBS was WICKED. It had the 350 TBI "K" engine with crazy horsepower and torque. I had to replace the engine with a 1966 El Camino 350 because the 350 "K" threw a rod. It had a Street Demon 625cfm carb. I had replaced the 700R at AAMCO transmissions in McAllen,TX. Hector is a WICKED tranny rebuilder. He rebuilt the tranny in my 2000 Silverado 1500 "Old Faithful" and my 2009 Ford Mustang V-6 Sleeper. Dude is AWESOME!
1971 Ford Mustang
This was the first car I purchased for my son for our father/son project. It was short lived. He had seen too many episodes of Counting Cars and was hooked on classics. After working on it for a minute he asked me for a ride he could just turn the key and take off with A/C and what have not! I sold it to a dude from Harlingen for $5500 with a set of 289 heads, a brand new Mach 1 hood still in the box and a brand new floor pan new in a box. I purchased it for $3000. I had more money in it than what I sold it for.
2009 Ford Mustang
This is the car I bought for my son when he requested a car with A/C. It's a 2009 Ford Mustang 45 Year Edition, V-6, 400, Sleeper. It has K&N Cold Air Intake, BKK 70mm Throttle Body, Street Demon High Performance Coil Pack, Livewires 10MM Performance Ignition Wires, Double-Tip High Performance Iridium Spark Plugs. It has upgraded aluminum thermostat, aluminum waterpump, brand new radiator. The entire cooling system is brand new. It has Michelin Defenders rated at 212MPH and it has vented/slotted rotors with high performance ceramic pads. It can hold 135MPH without skipping a beat for the long haul. I did the Shadow Motorsports Stage 1 Oil change and increased horsepower and compression.
2000 Silverado 4x4
This is my 2000 Silverado 4x4, "OLD FAITHFUL", solid truck comes with the 5.3L engine, K&N Cold Air Intake, I replaced all the coil packs and ingnition wires and performed a Shadow Motorsports Stage 1 Oil Change that increased the horsepower and compression. It has a 4L60E transmission. She's my daily driver I bought her back in 2007 with 169K miles, she's hitting about 260K miles and solid as a ROCK!
