Say it loud. Say it proud. Check out the skillz on Gil.
Believe it or not, there is life outside of West Coast Choppers. Jesse lets us have a weekend off every 4 months or so (workload permitting) to go and “have a little fun” as he says. Some people catch up on sleep, some go to Star War renactment events in the valley, others choose to host internet-themed murder mystery dinners where it’s never the butler that did it…but the weird guy in the corner with the terry cloth wristbands, greasy hair, a Casio wristwatch, eating a bag of Cheetohs (which pretty much describes everyone at the party).
But a few intrepid souls go out and kick ass in their spare time…and do the rest of us at WCC proud. One such fella is Gil Aguirre. His on the clock hours are spent at WCC as manager of the race division and chief mechanic. He spends his free time hucking, dominating whoops, jumps, and holes–basically throwing a helluvalotta dirt in the air. He races in the SCORE Sportsman’s Class. If you’re not familiar with that class…anything and everything goes!
Here’s the spec-speak Gil gave us on the truck: It’s a 1994 Ford Ranger powered by a Chevrolet LS1 with 450hp. It’s mated to Chevrolet TH400 transmission and the rear end is a custom fabricated Ford 9inch housing. It has 20″ of front travel and 26″ in the rear, all controlled by the use of FOX SHOCKS. It runs 35″ Goodyear Wranglers tires and the body is a Fiberwerx late model f-150 body.
The shots below are from Laughlin on January 16th and 17th from the 6.5 mile man made course known for swallowing cars alive. The 1st of a 5 race series where finishing both days is essential. Gil’s involvement for that race was to codrive and navigate for Nick Tonelli and if anything happend on course he would have to Mcgyver it together for a finish because there is no race support allowed at Laughlin. If it can’t be fixed, you’re screwed, and you get a DNF for the weekend. So you can see he’s a pretty important guy.
So, how’d he do? Day one he got 2nd in class, and day two he finished 1st! When the dust settled, and they averaged all the times, Gil and team came up in 1st for the weekend. Wooo-the-fucking-Hooooooooo! Way to go, Gil! Now get your ass back to work…we’ve got an ark to build, there’s another storm headed for Long Beach!
Gil’s sponsored by BEEHIVE sports bar in HB, Wicked Creations, Goodyear Tires, and Fiberwerx, and of course WCC and CIsco Burger.
VRODDER
Awesome man..How far away from Searchlight and Mojave from this area in Laughlin?? My family take our boats, Quads and Seadoos out to Searchlight/Mojave lake every year. Glad you all had fun. Looks like a great time!
VonCisco
Word!
kristina marie aka DD
I had no idea Gil :), sweet!
three
next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Red Dodge
Fuck yeah Gil! Show ‘em how it’s done!
slaterracing
hell ya gil get some. glad i was there havin fun with you guys. cant wait for the next race.
Bree
Rad Gil!! This is awesome for the BeeHive Team! :]]
L T
Pretty important!!!!! More like invaluable!!!!!! Gil is the man!!!!!!! Thanks again Gil!!!!!!
BFH
SKILL!!! DO WORK! nows hows about that lil CB. :)