Hernandez: We stayed on him and stayed on him, and finally he came back to the neighborhood and he rented this building. He told me that we had too many students, the school was expanding, and he was going to rent that building and I was going to take half of the students and I was going to be put on salary. I said finally I talked sense into this guy before he got beat up, before something happened. I remember the building, it was a little metal building. The floor was made out of dirt. I was like a little storage hut. I have never had anything like that. I did not even have a garage at the house, no pavement, it was all dirt. So he left me there. I remember it was a week and he never came by, he just abandoned me. So I did the best at what I knew. I started working on cars. I started getting the guys together and collecting a fee from everybody. Everybody would pay me five or 10 dollars a week. I would use that for rent money, buy materials. I would charge $100 to paint a car. 150 dollars, you know. $90 or what ever came in. That is how I got the body shop thing going, you know and the car club and all of that. The low riding started blowing up. It headed into a leadership thing, you know. Now all the guy looked up to me in the barrio. They wanted me to knock their cars down and paint them. They wanted to hang around with me and that is when I started fighting back. That is when I started saying, "Hey, we are getting beat up, man.” They pull us over. They beat us up. If you are drinking something they pour it all over your cassettes or eight track tapes. They [shakes head] it was bad.