My name is Kyle Hernandez. I'm a retail working, devoted father to a gorgeous baby boy, low paid, loving fiance, and I aspire to be.. A rally/track car driver. I have always loved driving ever since my mother let me try driving her 1996 Toyota Rav4 around a local church parking lot. Needless to say, it ended with me slamming on the brakes and flinging my year-old brother into the straps of his car seat nearly giving my poor mom a heart attack. But from that day forward I was hooked!
Now lets fast forward to when I was sixteen when I got my very first car, a 2001 Nissan Altima with black on black leather interior, 5 speed manual transmission, and a wobbly steering wheel. Within a few days of owning that car, we found out that the dealer who sold it to us tried to rip us off by claiming it was a 2001 but actually a 1999 inflating the price an extra 3 thousand dollars. So we quickly traded it back for an actually 2003 VW Jetta VR6 Automatic. I had many good times in this car, although rather reckless at times it still provided a good learning tool when it came how to properly drive quickly but safely on a paved surface. And through the next few years I jumped from various different vehicles and makes ranging anywhere from Dodge, Chevy, Honda, Acura, and finally to my now beloved Subaru.
When I first touched the keys to my new 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX I felt a great sense of " I can't wait to go stupid fast in this thing ", but that quickly changed once I sat in the seat and turned the key for the first time.
At that moment all I could think of was, "I wonder what it feels like to go sideways in this thing", and guess what.. I found out the upcoming weekend. I drove 206 miles to Anchorpoint, Alaska to visit my cousin Kirk who has a 2004 WRX as well, and he showed me his favorite stomping ground around the quite parts of town.
(Here is the car's first day home)
Now don't get me wrong.. I love going fast in a straight line, but nothing beats the feeling of the seatbelt digging into your shoulder while your car is sideways at 50+ MPH while your car's tach needle fluctuates from 5k to redline.
Fast forward again to today with a few more cars under my belt, a rolled 91 Honda Civic hatch, and the WRX back into my possession. I now have a beautiful baby boy named Landon Gary Hernandez.
So after years of wanting to build a rallyX and track prepped car I've come to a point in my life where I am stable enough to afford it as well as have support from my family and my loving fiance. This is going to be the complete record of the build from day one, including my current status of shopping for the car to be.
There WILL be ad's on this blog since I plan on generating revenue for funding the car, as well as product reviews for people on planning to do the same thing.
I will also ask of the readers to donate to my project. And it can be anything from $1 to $100 to even products, parts, and services. Anyone who donates WILL get listed in the blog. Anyone who donates over $100 will get their names decal-ed onto the car, and any company that does a donation will get a decal onto prime locations on the vehicle.
Again, thank you for reading my blog!
This is awesome Kyle. Take lots of picture's of your build. I want to see the start to finish. I'm going to contact you soon about an idea I want to work with you on in the future.
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