{"id":35,"date":"2012-05-06T21:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T21:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2012-05-22T04:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:50:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>About Bill Packard<\/h1>\n<p>Bill Packard is an ASE Master Certified\u00a0Technician with\u00a041 years of experience in all phases of automotive mechanical and body repair.<\/p>\n<h2>Qualifications<\/h2>\n<p><em>Training<\/em><br \/>\nAttended GM training facilities in Tarrytown, NY; Columbus, OH; and Needham, MA.<\/p>\n<p>Earned GM Certification in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronic Fuel Injection<\/li>\n<li>C 125 Automatic Transmission<\/li>\n<li>Computer Command Control and V8 Diesel Update<\/li>\n<li>6.2L V8 Diesel Engine<\/li>\n<li>4.3L V8 Diesel Engine<\/li>\n<li>A-Car Component Features Update<\/li>\n<li>Electrical Theory and basic Circuitry<\/li>\n<li>Air Conditioning<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Computer Commend Control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Certifications<\/em><br \/>\nASE Master Certification, 2000<br \/>\nASE L1, Advanced Level Specialist, 2001<br \/>\nM.A.C.S. Air Conditioning, 1995<br \/>\nGeneral Motors Certification (9 areas listed above), 1979 through 1985<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>41\u00a0years experience. Recent\u00a0experience includes:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Henderson Automotive<\/em><\/strong>, Phoenix, Arizona<br \/>\nShop Manager and Lead Automotive Technician<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>McClintock Unocal<\/em><\/strong>, Tempe, Arizona<br \/>\nLead Automotive Technician in 6 bay\u00a0shop performing all phases of automotive repair<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bill Packard Automotive Services<\/em><\/strong>, Tempe, Arizona<br \/>\nOwner\/operator<br \/>\nPerformance and race engine building,restorations and general automotive repairs<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stitzer Buick<\/em><\/strong>, Indianapolis, Indiana<br \/>\nMajor tune up Technician and computer command control troubleshooter<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<h2>Article from <span class=\"italic\">National DRAGSTER<\/span> Magazine<\/h2>\n<p>In early 2006 NHRA publshed an article on Bill in its weekly magazine, <span class=\"italic\">National DRAGSTER<\/span>. You can also read the <a title=\"article on Bill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NHRA-Article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF version of the article<\/a> (1.8 MB).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NHRA-Article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38\" title=\"NHRA-Article\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NHRA-Article.jpg\" alt=\"article on Bill\" width=\"620\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NHRA-Article.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NHRA-Article-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The engine made reference to\u00a0in the article:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39\" title=\"IMG_0996-X\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0996-X.jpg\" alt=\"engine close up\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0996-X.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0996-X-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0996-X-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Bill Packard Bill Packard is an ASE Master Certified\u00a0Technician with\u00a041 years of experience in all phases of automotive mechanical and body repair. Qualifications Training Attended GM training facilities in Tarrytown, NY; Columbus, OH; and Needham, MA. Earned GM Certification &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/?page_id=35\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bpspeedusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}