Formal Introduction to Socal Chapter
 

Alright I finally got some time to upload some pictures and post this introduction. I started a thread like this in the 73-79 forum and this is a modified copy paste of the 20 questions, not sure if you guys have done this but it's kinda fun, here we go:

Ok so I went Ape ****** on the pics hope you enjoy...

1. Name

Mason Perry
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2. Age
27
3. Sex
Yes Please! Male (Also very happily married, to a woman)
4. Where do you live now
Big Bear Lake in Southern California Resort town at 7000 feet
5. Where were you born
The Hospital in Big Bear Lake - Me as child
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6. Current vehicle you drive most IE Daily Driver
2000 Audi S4, I'll Post Pics
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7. First vehicle you ever owned
1971 Datsun 510 Lil'pup Pick up truck
8. Favorite vehicle you ever owned
E46 M3 was pretty awesome, Subaru 2.5RS was also really cool
M3:
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You could literally eat off the engine it was so clean
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Subaru:
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9. What you do for work now
Firefighter, Welding Fabrication Business
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10. First job you ever had
Worked for a jetski race promoter so that I could afford to race jetskis during highschool
11. Best job you ever had
Bartender and or welding/fab business owner
12. Worst job you ever had
Sporting goods store manager
13. Married/Dating/Single/Divorced/Seperated/Estranged/Mail order spouse
Married to a beautiful woman
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14. Kids and or Pets
15 month old son
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15. Favorite Food
Hard to go wrong with a nice ribeye, also enjoy my smoked ribs and smoked turkey.
This is actually a Porterhouse 28oz! I had this when my wife and I went to Outback Steakhouse on the 4th story that overlooks the strip in Vegas. Yummy, yes I ate it all!
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16. Favorite Drink
A coworker of mine brews his own brown ale, way smoother than Newcastle and 9% ABV it's the best thing I have ever tasted
17. Favorite Hobby (Besdies your truck)
Avid road cyclist, like to ride motocross/desert, cooking and bbqing, Bowhunt, competative shooting
Cycling with my wife Meagan
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2004 Crf 450R - Street leagal I got my Plate in AZ, I love Arizona!
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I shoot a longbow and compound both with fingers, this was 30 yards with the compound
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ONE MAN ARMY! This is actually old, I have 6 more guns since this picture...
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100 Yards with my 22-250
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18. Favorite sport
Motocross to spectate, any motorsports are good
19. Last thing you did to your truck
Took pictures of it! HAHA 3G Alt upgrade
20. Something else interesting/strange/weird/cool about you (keep it PG!)
Self taught weldor, really enjoy TIG and specialize in Aluminum mainly for work. Like all things mechanical, went to Cal Poly Pomona for mech. Engineering/Business. Graduated from Fire Academy and Paramedic School. Have a huge German Car Fetish. Here are all the cars I have owned in chronological order:

1971 Datsun 510 Pickup - Still have it, it's a beater I love it
2001 Subaru 2.5RS - Sold - Lots of mods I have pics somewhere
2003 Honda S2000 - Not practical but super fun - sold
2001 Audi S4 - Twin Turbo best snow car I have ever had - Stolen! Boo!
2002 BMW E46 M3 - WOW! Just in a league of it's own - Sold due to baby!
1999 Audi A4 Avant (Wagon) - great work truck HAHA, 3200 bucks, totaled and got 10.5K for it...Not bad
2000 Audi S4 - Needed another snow car + 4door for kid. Its stage 2++ so pretty much everything but turbos, 390HP 400+ TQ, HUGE front mount, Very Fast, I'll never sell it
1973 F250 4x4 99831 org miles I am the second owner. Here is the first picture of it:
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paid 1800 for it in 2011 towed it back from Scottsdale AZ, No rust, runs strong, I love it and love to work on it, currently doing suspension upgrades. I have a build thread somehwere.... https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ld-thread.html


Cheers Mason :-drink

Nicest entro thread I've ever seen! Usually we have to beg for pictures, and then teach how to post them.

Welcome to the So Cal chapter.

Thank you sir

I'll have to go along with that. Well done, Mason. :-X22

That Audi has a lot of plumbing coming through the intercooler...twins?

Yes sir it's a Bi-Turbo V6 so one turbo for each bank of 3 cylinders, that front mount intercooler is obviously not stock, in it's current format it pushes about 18 pounds of boost (stock is 6) and makes 380hp and 390tq at all 4 wheels (it still has stock turbos which have become the limiting factor, when they go it will get bigger turbos) . 0-60 it's no slouch but from 40-100+ is definitely where it stretches it's legs, not bad for an almost 4000 pound car that has 116k on the odo.

Welcome Mason, ditto on the best ever intro!

Welcome!

So are you at Firefighter with a welding fab company or is that two jobs you have?
I know some large industrial companies have internal private fire depts.

In fact the other day here in Ventura I saw a private rescue/ambulance truck for one of the environmental clean up companies.

Fire/Medic is one job, welding/fab is second job it was fulltime but now is part time, I do however do all of the welding for the department in house, mostly aluminum tig like diamond plate and stuff on the engines and ambulances. I also end up doing other mechanical fixes and maintenance since we are an hour from the closest diesel truck shop. And I ran all the gas lines in our database training tower.Sadly not many people are mechanically inclined these days...

Welcome to the Party and its nice to know the full bio right off the bat. Sure wish I had those welding skills.

Ya the welding has opened a lot of doors to fix things and make things that I would have to pay someone else for. For a while it was all that was putting food on the table, but I must say when I was doing it full time it became manotonous doing the same thing over and over every day.

:'( Jeeze Mason, you've just described most of our jobs! :'(

Thankfully we've got our Fords!

Intro...
 

I concur, that was an awesome intro.