“Both cars have won awards, but they are mostly for driving because that’s what we wanted, a driver. Speaking from experience, he said wife Phyllis has a 1984 Camaro (just a hair past La Jolla Light’s call for cars from 1980 or earlier), which she bought new and has kept up ever since. And when you start doing body work, it means big money. But you have to be prepared for that, it’s like owning a boat … you have to be careful with what you are getting into because you may think you are looking at it very carefully, there is always something you didn’t see. When asked if the cost of all this adds up, he said, “In a word: yes.
“I did some of the work, JBA did some of the mechanical work and Custom Auto Body did the painting,” Mazaika explained. Bittle, COO of the Miramar-based JBA Speed Shop. The wheels, tires and rims are all time accurate. There was also the “complete replacement” of the suspension system and some minor work on the engine so it wouldn’t be as noisy. “Adding the seatbelts was no small feat, because you have to attach them to the roof of the car.” “In the 1967 Camaro, you couldn’t have seatbelts or headrests, but we wanted to have this car be our driver, so we had to have that,” he said. Major adjustments include changes to the paint, adding air conditioning and replacing the interior with that of a 1969 Camaro, which featured additional safety and comfort amenities. Now a slick silver car with black stripes, the car was in less than stellar shape when he found it. But I always wanted another 1967 Camaro,” Mazaika said.įour or five years ago, he got his chance to own the car once again, and purchased another 1967 Camaro. “When they got too big for the backseat, it necessitated the sale of that car and the acquisition of a sedan. This car can take some of the twisty-est, turny-est roads we can find, and this car can hold the road at a higher speed than a regular car.”īut as the children, David and Michelle, grew older, the sports car had to go. “At that time, my family and I lived in Connecticut and my wife (Phyllis) and I would take our kids around the back roads of Connecticut. I liked the styling back then and I still love it today,” he said. They competed back and forth and still do, some 50 years later. … It came out two years after the Mustang, so it was the first time Chevy had produced a sports car that directly competed with the Mustang. “In 1969, I owned a 1967 (Chevrolet) Camaro convertible. For La Jolla resident Michael Mazaika, it takes him to a time when his children were little and he owned one stylish car. Maybe a time in America when the car was made, or a different time in the driver’s life. My hope is that you will be blessed by the images, the gifts, that I have received.For some who own older cars, climbing into the driver’s seat takes them back to a different time. My perspective on His relationship with my photography came into greater focus a few years ago as I thought over a quote attributed to the photographer Minor White, as explained by National Geographic photographer Dewitt Jones, who related that Minor White would never say ‘what will I take today’, but rather would ask ‘what will I be given today’ - 180-degrees out of phase of our natural tendency.
Since that day, we have been together in the fields and forests, at the mountains and along the rivers, in the morning mist, the evening’s twilight, and all times in between, through the heat and cold of the day and the seasons, in golden and silver light and surrounded by shadows. Only two voices: one clearly saying to the young man frozen in his seat, able only to raise his hand - “if it is war you choose, then war it shall be”, and the Other saying more quietly “Welcome son I am with you”. There was no resounding Alleluia Chorus to be heard, the sky did not open up. When I gave my life to Christ it was the fulfillment of the faithful prayers of many others on my behalf. I am a lover of history and of our country privileged to have seen a few other lands and their people grateful for the sight that I have been given on loan blessed by the scenes before me and the vision to see what they may look like at another hour and in another season. I am a seat-of-the-pants photographer: with not the best of equipment but not the worst either possessing good timing but no stranger to poor with camera gear in tow and at other times without witness to incredible light and often not so there at the right moment and frequently just a few minutes too late.
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