Sara B thinks that dude is freaky? I think he's more like...creepy.
He has to be an alien. They make those creepy dudes in cookie cutters, and then ship 'em down.
Evidence:
Amongs my hobbies, I enjoy cars. Fast ones. I've been known to drive in a Corvette.
Back in the day when I was spending money on horsepower compensating for other shortcomings instead of cutesy looking reefs, I met this dude in Southern California named "Andy." Andy, Joe, Rod, Fred - they all have equally easy to pronounce innocuous names and appear fairly harmless.
They also have this surfer-hippie-laid back-I hate the business aspect of the business kind of attitude. They "help their friends" and in turn they make a buck, typically a bunch lower than everyone else in the neighborhood. Who needs money when you're an alien? Most everyone wanted $10k for a supercharger, Andy wanted $6.5. And...he was also into fabricating a lot of his part from scratch. Custom. Was there any other way?
Superchargers, Surge Tanks. Car suspension, drilled tanks. Intake Manifolds, headers and exhausts, dursos and plumbing. Black Corvettes, Black Perculas.
Creepy.
He also didn't want to "scale" so he had this rinkydink two car garage (tandem at that) where he could only fit two customers at a time. We talked about "growing" and "hiring a few guys" and he generally frowned at that. The guys being hired wouldn't treat his "friends" like he would, so he would work long hours, sometimes with customers, often doing "freebie" or easy tweaks other mechanics would for much more. I used to see more people come in for "Counseling" and "hanging out" without paying a psychotherapist than to get a block sleeved.
Needless to say, the wait sometimes tended to be long...and often people drove their cars from New York/Florida to...Oxnard? Middle of nowhere, I tell you. A farmtown far from the burbs.
Creepy.
End result?
Tell me that "Andy" doesn't have that "fresh done with a doobie," hippie, don't worry be happy gait about him, reminiscent of that other alien in Dekalb...
https://www.aandacorvette.com/bbq/pages/IMG_0080.htm
Eventually, these aliens develop a...rather large following, cultish like, leading up to barbeques, fests in their particular occupation, and after trusting a human or two, they hire employees and scale:
https://www.aandacorvette.com/shop_tour.asp
Truly creepy.
The creep in California was a wrestler. The creep in Dekalb was a wrestler.
Some differences:
The California Creep married an accountant, and she had to quit her job so she could do the bills. The Creep in Dekalb is so far unmarried, but he may find an accountant yet.
They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky, the aliens that we like.
