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When JMS was on Huntington, I was working around the corner at Assael. That's when I got to know Mike. Greg was still at the counter.

After his dad sold the building, and Mike moved the shop to El Monte, I talked Mike into making a spot for me.

We put in a twin post and I started pulling engines for him. It kinna progressed from there.

Next thing ya know we were doing complete restorations. With 30 years of dealership experience, doing complete and custom wiring jobs, ac installs, EFI conversions, and all that jazz was somewhat easy for me.

Howard would drop by from time to time, Billy was building the engines with Mike, and Jeff was running the Dyno.

Sal came back and was machining blocks, and of course Pete is Still doing the head work! Lol

Lots of history there in that shop. Lots of boating experience as well.

So my brother worked there in the disassembly room and got to help out in the assembly room. Big black kid named Rob. He had a yellow 73 nova with a 377 and a 4 speed. I started at verbecks machine in Pasadena where I learned to build heads, valve jobs, surfacing, seat and guide machine cold weld cast iron (drill and plug) etc. Went to work for Steve in monrovia off myrtle. He taught me to port heads. Back when we all thought extrude hone was the shit and we had no idea about atomization of fuel in intake runners and opened the exhaust ports as big as we could lol. I had a 67 short bed chevy that would run 10's which was absolutely flying in 93 lol. Fun times back then learned alot and became an electrician so I could afford to build cool stuff.
 
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