Small world
Small freaken world isn't it !... A lot of those name do sound familiar, as far as Roland, A couple of my racing partners Rob & Dee Corrado were friends of the Mermons & another guy always there was Mike Fuentes, long before I met him... Roland is dead, he died probably 12-15 years ago now, he got into some bad stuff {powders, I think}, he had a massive annureisum {spelling} he was a veg pretty much before it happened anyway, He & Sue divorced, shortly after he got popped for growing herbs in his attic, "I always knew he didn't make all that money he was spending, just being an electrician & selling & buying cars/parts", he made some very questionable deals at times I went with him as back up when he went to look at cars he wanted to buy, I knew him very well , helped him build his garage/shop & many of his cars/Mopar projects, He & Sue got into the "Jet car stuff" & things got kind of weird after that, I went swimming & ate at his house {we called it Club Merm} many, many times & didn't have a clue about what he was doing on the sly, until near his death about the scumbags Oakland gang guys, he was dealing with... I know the Edgecombes {crane operators} Larry mostly, they had dragsters & DeTomaso's, Pantera's, Mopars etc., not real well but I do remember them, they were more friends of friends the Kaisers my neighbors on Jeanie Dr. when I lived in Pleasant Hill, I do remember "Fatty" Steve Leonard, he use to hang around "Speaker Head Ron" & Lori Clark {self proclaimed N20 guru, Pontiac Guy mostly & 1 of mine & Jim's racing crew members} he was another friend of mine from that area, back many moons ago, they were a kind of strange group though... I knew Rob Duarte very well from his teen years tell after he graduated from DVC & went to work for the lab, a bunch of us would go over & BS/Bench race at his house/garage while he would be working on some project or another his BBC 510 Datsun or His turbo V-6 Morris Minor, I actully purchased his pistons for his 468 FI engine in his 510, I had him replace a 2.8 V-6 in a piece of crap s-10 work truck to earn some extra money, he was a damn good mechanic & fabricator, he was a little younger than me, Scott Holman & Jeff Boggs, Fat BoB ? {don't remember his last name}, Jim Cyr & others use to be over there all of the time, Rob was our designated driver when we went out prowling he didn't drink alcohol, he was a good youngster...
