Bolt Locker
12-22-2008, 06:56 PM
Ok so you guy want to know about Bolt Locker. Who I am, what we do , what business I have even being allowed to read these hallowed pages. Well here goes. :D
I started doing oil changes, tire rotations, and Air Filter replacements on side jobs my Dad would bring home in about 1962.:confused: So I lived through the Whole Muscle Car thing. Yahoo.:eek: Fun while it lasted, but nothing good ever lasts. After High School I did 4 in the Corps. and then went to College on he GI plan. Cool Beans.
About 10 minutes after graduating College, I was right back in the Stalls and Pits. Worked at a dealership or two, :o and even made a ok living selling used cars. Never quit learning about engines or cars to this day. Now I have my own company. Bolt Locker :D :) :D. We started our with $250.00 worth of stainless steel bolts and an Idea. We package stainless bolt kits for performance engines. We added head bolts with washers a couple years later.
As with any good thing, it doesnt last. Some people bought my kits and copied them and went into business for themselves. :rolleyes: No big deal. If they can make money offa my idea, who's to stop them. Some made a go of it, some didn't.
I didn't just sit in my chair shipping stainless around the world. I wanted to electronicly fuel inject my pride and joy, that doesnt fit the HAMB definition of a Hot Rod, but it makes me happy. Lucielle is my 1965 Chevy Belair Station Wagon. :eek: Course she aint stock, she aint fancy, and she sure dont draw much attention driving quietly down the road. She does strut her stuff anytime one of these little turbocharged sewing machines pulls along side.:p Lucielle is over weight just like every 60's full size car is. She weighs 4340 wet full and with driver who is no small load himself. Jam on the loud pedal and the 620 ft lbs of small block torque plants the 10 inch tires. After getting 3 car lengths ahead of the whining sewing machine across a 4 lane intersection, I dont have much more to prove. And I dont have to go over the speed limit by more than 5 or 10 miles in doing it.:)
So I learned the stock GM and Ford Throttle Body and Multi Port Fuel Injections, wiring, sensors and computers. Not long after some of the local guys were coming to me for the tweak of the week and planning on Bigger and Badder set ups. I hooked up with a company that sells MegaSquirt Computers, and I had a whole new business going on to add to my Nuts and Bolts. Basically filling up another 3 or 4 hours per day.
Now, I have taken on building some T-Buckets for a friend that bought way more than his garage can hold. I have 2 in my posision now and another 4 to go. Maybe after that I will continue to build 2 or 3 a year, maybe not. But I am having alot of fun working with the old stuff right now. Except for the fact that I have questions to ask, and the questions get deleted off here for reasons I can not understand. But its you guys that have the answers so I have to placate the gods and warriors :confused: of H.A.M.B to get the answers, thats what I have to do.
Is this enough of an introduction, or do I have to hire a ghost writer to do a biography? :rolleyes:
I started doing oil changes, tire rotations, and Air Filter replacements on side jobs my Dad would bring home in about 1962.:confused: So I lived through the Whole Muscle Car thing. Yahoo.:eek: Fun while it lasted, but nothing good ever lasts. After High School I did 4 in the Corps. and then went to College on he GI plan. Cool Beans.
About 10 minutes after graduating College, I was right back in the Stalls and Pits. Worked at a dealership or two, :o and even made a ok living selling used cars. Never quit learning about engines or cars to this day. Now I have my own company. Bolt Locker :D :) :D. We started our with $250.00 worth of stainless steel bolts and an Idea. We package stainless bolt kits for performance engines. We added head bolts with washers a couple years later.
As with any good thing, it doesnt last. Some people bought my kits and copied them and went into business for themselves. :rolleyes: No big deal. If they can make money offa my idea, who's to stop them. Some made a go of it, some didn't.
I didn't just sit in my chair shipping stainless around the world. I wanted to electronicly fuel inject my pride and joy, that doesnt fit the HAMB definition of a Hot Rod, but it makes me happy. Lucielle is my 1965 Chevy Belair Station Wagon. :eek: Course she aint stock, she aint fancy, and she sure dont draw much attention driving quietly down the road. She does strut her stuff anytime one of these little turbocharged sewing machines pulls along side.:p Lucielle is over weight just like every 60's full size car is. She weighs 4340 wet full and with driver who is no small load himself. Jam on the loud pedal and the 620 ft lbs of small block torque plants the 10 inch tires. After getting 3 car lengths ahead of the whining sewing machine across a 4 lane intersection, I dont have much more to prove. And I dont have to go over the speed limit by more than 5 or 10 miles in doing it.:)
So I learned the stock GM and Ford Throttle Body and Multi Port Fuel Injections, wiring, sensors and computers. Not long after some of the local guys were coming to me for the tweak of the week and planning on Bigger and Badder set ups. I hooked up with a company that sells MegaSquirt Computers, and I had a whole new business going on to add to my Nuts and Bolts. Basically filling up another 3 or 4 hours per day.
Now, I have taken on building some T-Buckets for a friend that bought way more than his garage can hold. I have 2 in my posision now and another 4 to go. Maybe after that I will continue to build 2 or 3 a year, maybe not. But I am having alot of fun working with the old stuff right now. Except for the fact that I have questions to ask, and the questions get deleted off here for reasons I can not understand. But its you guys that have the answers so I have to placate the gods and warriors :confused: of H.A.M.B to get the answers, thats what I have to do.
Is this enough of an introduction, or do I have to hire a ghost writer to do a biography? :rolleyes: