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About Me

"Minitruckin' is not a hobby, it is a lifestyle. What started as a way for me to put some ideas on a blank canvas of a truck, turned into a roller-coaster ride of ups, downs, good times, bad times. Minitruckin' is a way to express your ideas and to come up with some of the most wicked creations ever devised. It allows us to use our minds and our ingenuity to engineer, fabricate, cut, weld, and learn. It's a comment on a weld, constructive criticism on a bracket, or buffing out that scratch. It's the countless hours spent creating a masterpiece within the confines of a 4 walled box with a door. It's the late nights spent slicing your hands, burning your clothes, setting your hair on fire from welding on your buddy's ride....for free. Minitruckin' is blowing an airline, a bag, or a tire and knowing that any phone number in that cell phone connects you with a person who will drop whatever he's doing to get you rolling as soon as possible. It's knowing that anyone you meet at a show or a run will gladly open his cooler, his home, his hotel room, his tools, his spare parts, or his shop to you without a second thought. It's standing under an EZ-UP crammed with new faces from different places and backrounds joking and carrying on. Minitruckin' is spending every night after a show welding up your rockers and saying...."Man, that was a blast!" Its knowing that somebody will be there at 4 a.m. with $300 worth of fireworks to wake you up after you've fallen asleep on your frame with a welding mask on. Minitruckin' is a giant family. 95% of the friends I have are minitruckers. Why do I choose to surround myself with these grinder swinging, mig welding, metal forming, truck draggin' maniacs? Because I AM ONE. Minitruckin' is about our friends, our family.... and rolling our trucks low with our heads held high. I am a Minitrucker.....and always will be a minitrucker." -Wyatt Strange 1998- My Family Pictures,Pics of rides I have built,Old High School Pics,Southern Showdown-How we do it in the Ville,Indy Truck Bash '06 Pics

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Paul and Ringo...would have really of loved to have met Goerge and John...Chip Foose, Boyd Coddington, Mike Finnegan,Lance Martz....

Music:

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Movies:

riding dirty

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My Blog

Thanks Mike

just wanted to give a shout out to my boy Mike,AKA msturg, he has really been a big help in me getting my truck ready for the Z and body drop...thanks alot Mike, the pics and advice are a big help...a...
Posted by bdpaco on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:57:00 PST

truck update

tear down is finished, all thats left to do is move/extend some wireing and then i can start the Z..cant wait to get this thing laying rocker...
Posted by bdpaco on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:02:00 PST

more progress...

well the headlights, headlight panel and grill are off..I also have 90% of the passenger fender off..tomorrow i am going to finish pulling the fenders and front bumper. I hope to have everything reloc...
Posted by bdpaco on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:30:00 PST

the truck, what else?

started working on my Ranger yesterday afternoon, so far the rear is ripped apart and sits about 3" lower, just need to clean up some cuts re-wire the lights and fuel tanl and get some new hiem ...
Posted by bdpaco on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:58:00 PST

Worked on the truck today

well I had some time off over the new year and took advantage of the semi-nice weather and got my raised tranny crossmember installed...it only took a complete remake of my exhaust and relocation of s...
Posted by bdpaco on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:47:00 PST

November 29, 2001

He was The Quiet One, The Shy One, The Sad One, The Serious One. Not a Lennon, not a McCartney. Not as famous a songwriter as either. Perhaps not quite a legend. But Harrison was so much an influence ...
Posted by bdpaco on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:34:00 PST

December 8, 1980, 11:15 PM

"One of the great figures of the entire world, one of the great artists, was shot to death horribly at the Dakota Apartments, 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City. John Lennon is dead. H...
Posted by bdpaco on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:28:00 PST

life goes on

well just an update for all of you...been a crazy past week..went to Lakins wedding and reception on Saturday and had a blast..what a character!!...and David Smiths funeral on Tuesday...David and I we...
Posted by bdpaco on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:39:00 PST

ITB

started off a little shitty with the rain but it cleared up around 2....show started coming in to it then...left there around 6. Went to the Gauge Magazine open house...free beer...live band...it was ...
Posted by bdpaco on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:17:00 PST

Mustang Upgrade

Adding cross drilled and slotted rotors, KYB struts ans shocks, performance brake pads and lowering Killer's mustang 1.3" today...I just found out...NEVER NEVER try to do all this in one day if you do...
Posted by bdpaco on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:22:00 PST