At the Reynosos' Torrance home while my MG TD was in their garage for its semi-blueprint engine rebuild. It was during this period Miguel Angel "Mike" Reynoso told me I'd have to make a choice: "You can't have both guitarist and mechanic hands." He was wrong. No choice required, just inattention. I am barely competent to either play or wrench, and my hands aren't remarkable one way or the other, even though at numerous junctures I did simultaneously have serious dings on my knuckles and calluses on my finger tips.

Here's Mike Reynoso leaning over some serious MG project. We did my TD, Richard Harry Gatley's TF-1250, and a flathead Dodge for one of Mike's friends or relatives..

Your OBedient Servant watching a real mechanic at work. I learned a lot from Mike and Michael Avery Houston, and Richard Harry Gatley, and from Rebecca Reynosos Senior and Junior. Not to mention Eric and Ian Gatley. And from a USC professor of education. One great summer, 1961 (or so).

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