RENO, NV (Dec. 15) – This Sunday Muscle Motors teamed up with Reno Cars & Coffee. Their goal was collecting toys for the Salvation Army as well as showing off cars.
Asked about the meet Travis May, Sales Manger said, “We wanted to give back to the less fortunate. So we’re all thankful for the toys we have so why not give some back to the kids that need some toys. It’s all benefiting the Salvation Army, everything.”
This meet for Reno Cars and Coffee is usually at another location. However this time May and Lance Freitas worked to combine forces and they were joined by some members of Carson Cars and Coffee.
“He’s part of our Face Book, Market Place, social communities and things like that so we asked him. Reno Cars and Coffee helped us out, Carson Cars and Coffee helped us out, Starbucks donated coffee, Doughboy Donuts South Meadows donated 10 dozen donuts. Everyone came out, it’s a really good turnout and I’m really thankful everyone showed up.”
Muscle Motors is located at 9501 South Virginia and their phone number is 775-204-8269. The store’s website is www.musclemotorsreno.com.
During the meet several people came in and dropped off toys. Two of them among others were Thomas Krvejzfeldt and A.J.Conateras and by the end there were many toys that will go to the Salvation Army.
As usual for a Cars and Coffee meet there is a variety of cars. They run from the exotic to the kind of ordinary while many are modified for more power.
There were at least two drifting cars present and Richard Plascencia is the owner of one of them.
“I believe it’s a ’93 Nissan hatch back with a 5.0 motor swap,” he said. “Drifting is the main purpose of the car, got a GK Tech roll center correction for some angle and I think it’s got a T5 transmission in there and welded differential. It’s pretty good but no interior.
The car is equipped with a racing seat and 5-point harness as well as a roll cage. He still has some work to do on the car but Plascencia hopes his next drifting event will be at the Reno Fernley track.
During the meet there was a competition to see who had the best looking car. Krvejzfeldt, after dropping off his toys, was hard at work polishing his Toyota, which is set up for drifting.
One interesting combination was a full sized Jeep as well as a baby Jeep that had been driven by the owner’s young daughter.
Highlighting the meet was great weather as Mother Nature smiled on the event and blessed it with nice weather.
This coming weekend Carson Cars and Coffee will have their monthly meet starting at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Carson Mall’s parking lot.
OTHER RACING NEWS:
• Teresa’s Garage Radio Show is on the air Tuesday from 2 until 3 p.m. and it covers all things automotive. There is a new co-host Emily Cook, a young woman racer from southeast.
I have a preview section at 2:15 and this time I’ll be giving a heads up for the next two weeks. You can hear the show over the air in the Reno/Sparks area, streaming on the Internet or live of Face Book.
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