Burt Reynolds filmed the movie Cop and A Half in the Tampa area and Andy built three of the 1968 Camaro used in the film. One of his cars sold to Universal Studios in Orlando for viewing in the back lot area at the park; Burt Reynolds autographed one of the cars.   

Beginning work on one of the camaro's for Cop and a Half 
at our shop.

Andy and the car on the set for the movie

The Second Noah TV show was a drama series about the lives of a loving family with eight adopted children who lived together in a large home near Busch Gardens animal/amusement Park in Tampa, Florida. This show used Andy’s 1971 black Chevy Camero in the series. 

Picture of the car on the set for Second Noah

His 1938 Chevy Coupe was featured in this European Magazine after it was seen at a car show

On May 26, 1996, the Tampa Tribune featured ANDYS CAR STORE in an article about how Tampa police officers are resurrecting the community-patrol beats of their predecessors by making themselves an integral part of the neighborhoods.

 

 

“The beat goes on Tampa police officers are resurrecting the community-patrol beats of their predecessors by making themselves an integral part of the neighborhoods”
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Furiously fast

For students' cars at Wharton, speed and style are uppermost. Their rides cost a bundle, and they wouldn't leave home without them.

By JOHN BALZ
Published May 25, 2003
photo
[Times photos: Mike Pease]
Wharton High School's Justin DeJesus has tricked out his 2002 GMC Sonoma pickup with 20-inch rims, a premium sound system, a TV with satellite programming and a DVD player with a Playstation 2 console.
Wharton High student Aleana Klodakis gets plenty of offers to race.
Wharton High School student Ricky Meyer, 17, shows off the engine compartment of his metallic blue 1985 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 that he built and now drives to school.

 

NEW TAMPA - Claim on the fastest ride at Wharton High School is likely to be found under one of two hoods. Ricky Meyer's 355-horsepower V-8 Camaro Z28 or Aleana Klodakis' 410-horsepower 6-cylinder twin turbo Toyota Supra.

Meyer's metallic blue Camaro is from 1985 - the year he was born, a coincidence by no means accidental.

Three years ago, Meyer bought the car off his brother's friend for $100. It had no engine, no transmission. Just two doors and four wheels. With $6,000, borrowed from his brother, he remade a machine that today bears the license plate: BURN-M.

He rebuilt a Chevy 350 small block engine. He added a new exhaust system, a chromed-out carburetor, an automatic racket shifting system. The massive racing tires are wide enough to fill potholes and named for the ancient Greek warrior Hercules.

Klodakis got her all-black 1994 Supra as a 16th birthday present. It was a dream car that took her parents three months to find. Off the lot, the Supra had 320 horses to prance around.

But Klodakis - the daughter of a man who builds cars for a living and a woman who drives a Pontiac Trans-Am with a tank of nitrous oxide in the trunk - squeezed another 90 horses out of the Supra's engine by adding a twin turbo kit. She replaced the stock piping underneath the chassis, and made a few cosmetic alterations such as 18-inch rims on the wheels and Indiglo lights on the dashboard gauges.

Engraved on her license plate frame are the Greek letters for "Girl."

In New Tampa, where driving is like breathing, a car is a second skin. Even in high school. Especially in high school.

The parking lot of Wharton High School is an asphalt yearbook. Cars that empty a parent's savings account. Cars that get you from point A to point B. And cars that someone clearly has been busy tinkering with in their spare time.

The term for the latter is customized and there are two sub-groups; those who are in it for show; and those who are in it for speed.
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