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Are you serious?:eek
Are you serious?:eek
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Yep . . . . dead serious . . . . I am a founding member of Identity Crisis, a southern California based classic rock group.
Does that surprise you Frank?
Does that surprise you Frank?
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Yeah it does
I thought you were more on the conservative side.:L
I am a bit on the radical side to, at least i used to be in high school. But I have mellowed out.
If I had to pick an absolute favorite classic rock band I would say Credence Clear Water Revival
. The Doors I absolutly dislike(for lack of a better words). Someone said "Jim Morisson is nothing but a drunk poet" I agreed. My absolute favorite modern rock band is "The Offspring". Kinda punkish alternative if you ask me.
I still freak my fiance out when I use some of my old jargon from high school or how I don't freak out when I meet strange people on the street. Someone you might typically be afraid of. I have grown a tough exterior skin from one particular place I grew up in.
When I met her after our first date I gave her the skinny on all the stuff I was into and did. She says it made me a stronger person but she would kill me if I got back into my old ways.
Who said engineers didn't know how to party!! I think a lot of people think pocket protectors and dorky glasses!:eyerole
Whats the skinny on you?
I thought you were more on the conservative side.:L
I am a bit on the radical side to, at least i used to be in high school. But I have mellowed out.
If I had to pick an absolute favorite classic rock band I would say Credence Clear Water Revival
. The Doors I absolutly dislike(for lack of a better words). Someone said "Jim Morisson is nothing but a drunk poet" I agreed. My absolute favorite modern rock band is "The Offspring". Kinda punkish alternative if you ask me.I still freak my fiance out when I use some of my old jargon from high school or how I don't freak out when I meet strange people on the street. Someone you might typically be afraid of. I have grown a tough exterior skin from one particular place I grew up in.
When I met her after our first date I gave her the skinny on all the stuff I was into and did. She says it made me a stronger person but she would kill me if I got back into my old ways.
Who said engineers didn't know how to party!!
I think a lot of people think pocket protectors and dorky glasses!:eyeroleWhats the skinny on you?
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Conservative? Only politically . . .
I've been in and out of bands since I was about 15. Still playin' after all these years. In my younger days, I suppose I was a little on the wild side (maybe a lot). But on the other hand, I never hurt anybody, have never been into drugs . . . basically just went about entertaining and having a good ol' time. Now at 45, I'm REALLY starting to slow down. Those gigs from 9 pm to 2 am are starting to erode my desire just a little bit. However, whenever I take a week or so off, I'm always anxious to get back on that stage. We are almost exculsively a cover band and do a mix of old and new . . . Black Crowes, Tom Petty, Beatles, CCR, Van Morrison, Greg Kinh, Allman Brothers, SRV, etc . . . classic rock and blues.
My youngest son is now following in those footsteps. Keep your eyes open for him and his group, Orion, on the Matchbox label.
Here's a link to a picture taken at the Long Beach Sand Castle competition late last summer.
http://home.earthlink.net/~pmorales01/beach.jpg
I've been in and out of bands since I was about 15. Still playin' after all these years. In my younger days, I suppose I was a little on the wild side (maybe a lot). But on the other hand, I never hurt anybody, have never been into drugs . . . basically just went about entertaining and having a good ol' time. Now at 45, I'm REALLY starting to slow down. Those gigs from 9 pm to 2 am are starting to erode my desire just a little bit. However, whenever I take a week or so off, I'm always anxious to get back on that stage. We are almost exculsively a cover band and do a mix of old and new . . . Black Crowes, Tom Petty, Beatles, CCR, Van Morrison, Greg Kinh, Allman Brothers, SRV, etc . . . classic rock and blues.
My youngest son is now following in those footsteps. Keep your eyes open for him and his group, Orion, on the Matchbox label.
Here's a link to a picture taken at the Long Beach Sand Castle competition late last summer.
http://home.earthlink.net/~pmorales01/beach.jpg
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I guess I can say that I have always been an adrenaline junkie.
I started getting into guitar but it never really happened became a skater (skateboarding) instead. I loved launching off of ramps seeing how high I could go! Cars and acceleration provide my "fix" now.
What really got me into cars was one night my pops started telling me and my brother about how him and his friends used to race a "souped up Nomad". They used to race Vettes & Mopars with it. They even broke one of the leaf springs on the car:eek. How powerful the car was, I don't know but when you hear stories like that coming from you old man you don't care he's your hero anyways.
What put the cherry on top for me was when we stopped by an Arbys to get a bite to eat after school. There used to be a 1st gen camaro (purple) with big fat M/T's on the back and a dual carb chrome roots blower sticking out of the hood.:eek. I thought "I have got to get me one of these!"
I have always enjoyed breaking apart my toys and trying to figure out what made them tick. My interests were initially robotics but now I apply my knowledge to cars and loving it.
I have given serious thought into starting my own Hi-Performance engineering shop to play with the latest and greatest technology and apply it to Hot Rodding. My dad tells me its going to be really hard and really competitive but what isn't?
Frank
I started getting into guitar but it never really happened became a skater (skateboarding) instead. I loved launching off of ramps seeing how high I could go! Cars and acceleration provide my "fix" now.
What really got me into cars was one night my pops started telling me and my brother about how him and his friends used to race a "souped up Nomad". They used to race Vettes & Mopars with it. They even broke one of the leaf springs on the car:eek. How powerful the car was, I don't know but when you hear stories like that coming from you old man you don't care he's your hero anyways.
What put the cherry on top for me was when we stopped by an Arbys to get a bite to eat after school. There used to be a 1st gen camaro (purple) with big fat M/T's on the back and a dual carb chrome roots blower sticking out of the hood.:eek. I thought "I have got to get me one of these!"
I have always enjoyed breaking apart my toys and trying to figure out what made them tick. My interests were initially robotics but now I apply my knowledge to cars and loving it.
I have given serious thought into starting my own Hi-Performance engineering shop to play with the latest and greatest technology and apply it to Hot Rodding. My dad tells me its going to be really hard and really competitive but what isn't?
Frank
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keep on rockin' in the free world, guys
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Similar story for me. My dad's family were all a bunch of 'Jalopy' racers. My dad, my uncles . . . even my grandmother had her own car!! I wish I had a picture of that . . . I'll have to ask her if she has one she would give me. She's an 85 year old Cherokee Indian, tough as nails . . .
My dad then got into motorcycle racing. He had a very bad crack up, so my mom told him "either the racing goes or I go", or something to that affect. So, he quit racing. But, it remains in his blood to this day. I grew up around all of the drag strips here in southern Cal. Back then, there were several - OCIR, Lyons, Irwindale.
For a time, my dad owned an auto repair shop. The competition, even then, was pretty stiff. When I was in kindergarten, I had the morning session. When school was out, I would walk down to his shop a couple of blocks away and help out. I still remember cleaning parts for him in gasoline of all things . . . leaded gasoline at that (that's all they had back in 1962). Even though he closed down that shop and went on to other things, he continued to do rebuilding and repair at home. I was always at his elbow learning. When I was 14, he turned me loose on an engine for the first time. I had the pleasure of rebuilding a chevy straight six. Put her all together, static timed her - and she fired right up. So, I've been hooked all my life. Not much of a speed demon these days. I had a couple of close calls when I was young, the worst of which was in a 1975 Chevy LUV. I had yanked the engine and trans (which were shot) and dropped in a small block. Man, that thing would fly. And then, one day coming off a stop light, I nailed it. I was racing a fellow in an old 'stang. Had 'im too . . . by a lot . . . but when we got to the next intersection an old guy turned left in front of me. I tee boned him and totalled both cars. Nearly killed my brother too. So, I'm slow these days . . .
But, I still love tearin' 'em apart and puttin' em back together . . .
My dad then got into motorcycle racing. He had a very bad crack up, so my mom told him "either the racing goes or I go", or something to that affect. So, he quit racing. But, it remains in his blood to this day. I grew up around all of the drag strips here in southern Cal. Back then, there were several - OCIR, Lyons, Irwindale.
For a time, my dad owned an auto repair shop. The competition, even then, was pretty stiff. When I was in kindergarten, I had the morning session. When school was out, I would walk down to his shop a couple of blocks away and help out. I still remember cleaning parts for him in gasoline of all things . . . leaded gasoline at that (that's all they had back in 1962). Even though he closed down that shop and went on to other things, he continued to do rebuilding and repair at home. I was always at his elbow learning. When I was 14, he turned me loose on an engine for the first time. I had the pleasure of rebuilding a chevy straight six. Put her all together, static timed her - and she fired right up. So, I've been hooked all my life. Not much of a speed demon these days. I had a couple of close calls when I was young, the worst of which was in a 1975 Chevy LUV. I had yanked the engine and trans (which were shot) and dropped in a small block. Man, that thing would fly. And then, one day coming off a stop light, I nailed it. I was racing a fellow in an old 'stang. Had 'im too . . . by a lot . . . but when we got to the next intersection an old guy turned left in front of me. I tee boned him and totalled both cars. Nearly killed my brother too. So, I'm slow these days . . .
But, I still love tearin' 'em apart and puttin' em back together . . .
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My dad told me a story about when my uncle who owned a 64 Impala SS at the time got challenged in the street by some other guy while my grandmother was in the car. So my uncle guns it and AND MY GRANDMOTHER IS EGGING HIM ON!! She spoke to him in spanish but loosing translated she said " c'mon son beat him beat him, give it some gas!!" This is funny coming from a 50 yr old woman at the time! We all had a good laugh about it at our family gathering.
My pops is reliving his childhood through me. He is finally getting back into cars but now with my education and all that I have learned reading magazines and talking to other gear heads I explain to him things about cars instead of the other way around.
Right now he is looking to build a 454 and put it into a Chevelle. He wakes me up in the mornings to call people about parts that are for sale in the paper. For instance last saturday there was a 454 block for sale in the paper for $100:eek. He wakes me up and tells me to call about it. The block was sold but its funny how my dad is starting to get into this stuff again. I told him if he put the bottom end together I would help him with some aluminum heads. He sneaks into my room to steal my magazines to.
To bad I am going to be leaving home.
Frank
My pops is reliving his childhood through me. He is finally getting back into cars but now with my education and all that I have learned reading magazines and talking to other gear heads I explain to him things about cars instead of the other way around.
Right now he is looking to build a 454 and put it into a Chevelle. He wakes me up in the mornings to call people about parts that are for sale in the paper. For instance last saturday there was a 454 block for sale in the paper for $100:eek. He wakes me up and tells me to call about it. The block was sold but its funny how my dad is starting to get into this stuff again. I told him if he put the bottom end together I would help him with some aluminum heads. He sneaks into my room to steal my magazines to.
To bad I am going to be leaving home.
Frank
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Hee hee . . . my dad stands looking whenever I drive away from his house in the vette . . . he has only ridden in it once . . . he was surprised with the torque. I KNOW that he'd like to drive it, but he has yet to ask. As soon as he asks, I'll throw him the key. Funny, I think he's afraid that it will get him wanting to build some power again.
Dad's last two projects were a '57 chevy pickup (blown) and a '66 El Camino (N-A and hotter than a two dollar pistol). Way too much money down the drain, at least according to my mom!!
So, I know what you're saying with your pop!!
On the other side, my oldest son (25) just bought a Rustang GT. Five speed, V-8 . . . he lives in Jackson, Mississippi but is trying to move back to southern California as soon as the job market opens up a little (he writes computer software). He can't wait to get back out here and take his new 'stang to the drags!!
Dad's last two projects were a '57 chevy pickup (blown) and a '66 El Camino (N-A and hotter than a two dollar pistol). Way too much money down the drain, at least according to my mom!!
So, I know what you're saying with your pop!!
On the other side, my oldest son (25) just bought a Rustang GT. Five speed, V-8 . . . he lives in Jackson, Mississippi but is trying to move back to southern California as soon as the job market opens up a little (he writes computer software). He can't wait to get back out here and take his new 'stang to the drags!!
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According to my dad his dream car would be a Cuda with a blower on it. You know one of those 6-71's sticking out of the hood. He said it wants it so that he can go buy milk!:L I've talked to one of my brothers about buying one for him. I'll work on restoring it, putting a roll cage in it with a blown 440 in it. Its just something that we discussed and were serious about. He would put in for half of the cost and me the other. My dad's a Mopar fanatic. He used to watch Nash Bridges just because he drove one in the show.
Actually the cars from the show were built out here. There is a guy who specializes in Mopars and he restores them etc. He charges a pretty penny but his work is top notch. We'll see how the financial future is. C'mon lotto!!
I joke around with my dad. He's looking for I project car and I tell him that there is a vette sitting outside. He tells me "yeah but THATS YOUR car" I tell him "c'mon you know as soon as I install the parts your gonna be the first one to take it out!" He just laughs.
Big Red I like your profile "watch out - falling dot coms" ROFLMAO that was good. Going to show that to my buddies at work tommorrow. Can you believe Tony Hawk is still going at it!! Man that guy must be 30 or something!!
Actually the cars from the show were built out here. There is a guy who specializes in Mopars and he restores them etc. He charges a pretty penny but his work is top notch. We'll see how the financial future is. C'mon lotto!!
I joke around with my dad. He's looking for I project car and I tell him that there is a vette sitting outside. He tells me "yeah but THATS YOUR car" I tell him "c'mon you know as soon as I install the parts your gonna be the first one to take it out!" He just laughs.
Big Red I like your profile "watch out - falling dot coms" ROFLMAO that was good. Going to show that to my buddies at work tommorrow. Can you believe Tony Hawk is still going at it!! Man that guy must be 30 or something!!
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