“Last week I surfed K-38’s,†said Javier Plascencia, the chef and proprietor of Tijuana’s Mision 19. “But the surf was pretty bad.â€
Plascencia is from Tijuana, attended high school in Chula Vista, and grew up surfing in Imperial Beach, OB and his home breaks in Baja.
The rock-star handsome Tijuana surfer, along with fellows chefs such as Diego Hernandez of Corazon de Tierra, Benito Molina and Solange Muris of Manzanilla, and brothers Javier Martinez of Boules, and David Martinez Muelle 3 in Ensenada are leading a  … Pictures and more
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Big Willie Robinson was as much legend and myth as flesh and bone, and at 6’6†300 pounds with 21-inch biceps and a 58-inch chest, there was a lot of flesh and bone. Robinson was more than a drag racer, promoter and sanctioning body president, he was the man who used the power of horsepower to unite people of all colors and creeds under the banner of drag racing, once saying at a race, “Ain’t no colors here, it’s all just engines.†As the founder and president of The National and International Brotherhood of Street Racers, he used racing to bring the races together.
Robinson died Saturday morning May 19 after a long, though undisclosed illness. He was 70 years old  … More
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From the time he was a child, Carroll Shelby was into cars. After a brief but understandable diversion into airplanes during World War II, Shelby eventually made his way back to his passion, racing and later building some of the world’s fastest cars.
He touched the lives of many people along the way, so we’ve scoured the internet for what some of them have said, and are saying, about this American automotive icon since his passing on Thursday … More
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