[Danny86]

Originally Posted by LBC Por Siempre

Hiya, I am new here.

My real name is Tim but on here I go by "LBC Por Siempre" which translates "Long Beach City For Ever".

I was born and raised in Long Beach, North Town Long Beach, where a lot of the fast a furious car culture and modification went down like it did all over Southern California. Extremely mixed and diversified racial cross section. Black folks, White Folks, Mexican/Latin Americans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Samoan, Tongan Americans - I can go on and on. Its one of the reasons I am so proud of my roots.

I graduated from Jordan High School in 1992, Blue City - Proud of the 90805.

Currently living full time in Bakersfield. Moved back up here about two years ago to help my mom with my father's stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. On the 5th of this year its been just over a year since he joined his loved ones in heaven.

I do have plans on back to Long Beach, specifically Belmont Shore or Naples.

Career wise I started out as boots on ground tech support working huge deployments, generally large businesses with 600 - 3000 employees.

eventually I did get some certifications earlier on concentrating on Cisco and Networking. But I soon found out there tends to be a glut on individuals who have the more popular Certs. So I decided to concentrate on the tougher certifications and the certs no one has heard of. Most specifically Management certs, Project Management, Business Process - Since I did get my Four year Bachelor's degree in business with a concentration in MIS, and finally I.T.I.L. and COBIT.

I'm telling you, you get the right certifications then you can write your own checks.

In 2012 I was blessed by being able to finally afford and purchase one of my all time dream cars, a 2012 Porsche 911 Turbo that I had painted "Arena Red" which was the dark red Burgundy Color I fell in love with back in the mid 90s 993 Turbos - which were the last of the air cooled 911s. I wish I could order an FRS or BRZ in any color I wanted. Porsche charges about $5500 for the privilege.

I drive my Prius about 97% of the time. Its a 2008 and is getting long in the Tooth with the Mileage. For Business I drive a lot between LA/OC Counties which it ain't too difficult to find parking, especially parking you do not have to pay for.

I got a wylde-hare up my buttocks the other day and went down to Bakersfiel Gasoline Alley to take a look at the new Prius (C)ity version version. I checked out all the offerings including the base Fiat 500 and then I test drove the Abarth. That Abarth is funner than just about anything else out there, just as fun as a Shifter Go-Kart.

Then I finally walked by one of the upgraded FRS on the Scion lot; I went to look at the new Scions and get the discounted oil change for my Prius.

If anyone knows who Chris Harris is got check out his review of the FRS/BRZ/GT86... that's about exactly how I felt driving the FRS. It brought a lot of my inner child out, all these ideas of what I could do to the car to make it "FUNNER" to drive. But off the lot its just fine for probably over 99.SOMETHING% of the general public. Subaru really hit a homer by putting the engine the lowest out of any other car made in the US. Then Toyota with their fuel injection has made for an awesome combo. At first I thought the 2.0L engine was Subaru's world car engine they use in everything including the basis for their rally program.

So I will leave it at that. As I said before in another thread if I go off topic too much or get too word or just write TMI please LEMME know.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Oh I also go by the nickname Tree since in my friend circle in la/oc/lbc there are about 8 of us named Tim. So feel free to call me "TREE"

Saludos Muchos

Tree

Quite the extensive introductory post there Tree man

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