Paul's Garage

September 2004

April 2005

I love cars. Not just like them a lot, but really love 'em. I still love to play with them just like I did when I was a kid playing with toys and models.

And I'm a very lucky guy to have collected a few really nice ones. They're not exotics, or true classics. But they represent a cross-section of the cars I love to drive.

When I was a teenager in the mid-sixties I really wanted a "muscle" car (they were very popular at the time - this was their heyday). Never got a chance to own one back then, but bought a nice Mustang 5.0 in 1989 (and moderately modified it in 2001). I owned it for 18 years, finally selling it when I got a new 2007 Mustang GT (see below).

The MR2, purchased in 1996, is about close to an exotic as I will probably ever get. I've kept it stock - and very clean. It's even appeared in a magazine!

And the Miata (got it in January, 2004) is sort of like the British roadsters I loved when I discovered sports cars back in the mid sixties.

You know, I'm living my teenage car fantasy!

April 2007

November 2007

Keep scrolling down for photos...

Here's the current fleet. Click on any picture below to see it full size.
Yes, most have names (indicated in the parenthesis).

2007 Mustang GT
(as yet unnamed)

2003 Miata Shinsen
("BB Zoomer")

1993 Toyota MR2
("Mr. Red")

2002 Toyota Highlander
("Conner")

2000 Acura TL
("Fern")

I waited a long time to order a new muscle car. Here's my 2007 Mustang!

Got the Miata in January 2004. What a fun car! More Info.

Another toy, here's my MR2 (purchased in 1996). More Info.

Here are pictures from some of the car events I've attended...

My past and present license plates.

On the MR2

Was on my Nissan

On the Highlander

California Job Case

Baby Zoomer


Sold my '87 Mustang in January 2007 after 18 years! (Click the pic for more info.)		I don't know why you'd be interested, but here's a scrapbook I put together detailing my life of cars. (You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

More pix...

George Barris, king of car customizers:
http://www.barris.com
(6/08)

Matt Stone, executive editor of Motor Trend, signing his new book on Steve McQueen's cars. Dave Kunz, reporter for channel 7 here in Los Angeles, showed up in his beautiful Bullitt Mustang clone. (11/07)

Another car customizing legend,
Gene Winfield (6/08)
Read more...

Art Fitzpatrick (automotive artist) and Jim Wangers
(a very welll-known automotive marketing guy) at
a booksigning.

I met Barry Meguiar in October 2007
at the Japanese Classic Car Show.
He's a very nice guy.

Legendary race car driver Dan Gurney.

Ed Iskenderian (right), a hot rod legend known mainly for his racing camshafts
(www.iskycams.com) and Glenn Necessary, who owns that old race car).

I ran into Jay again at another book signing. That's Wallace Wyss
on the right, one of the authors of a new book on the
Ford GT and GT40.

In January 2007, pictures of my MR2 appeared
in Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine.
(Click the picture for details.)

I've had a number of letters printed in magazinesover the years,
but in January 2007, MazdaSport magazine
published my picture too! (Click the pic.)

November 2006
Another "Leno Sighting"
at Autobooks
in Burbank.

While buying a copy of Motor Trend Classics at Autobooks, Doug,
one of the guys who runs the place, told me to look out the front window.
There was the car that was on the cover! Then he said, "Now look behind you."
It was Dave Kunz, a reporter for ABC in LA. Turns out it's his car. And he drove it in the article!