About Guido

The story

(There's ALWAYS a story!)

This website was named after my  beloved late Uncle Guido Valeri (Actually they messed up his last name in the Army renaming him Valexio so he liked that and kept it). The name Guido always bring up the image of an Italian goon with no neck, knuckles draging on the ground...

I'm Ken Valeri, the owner of Guido's Garage which houses my private collection of mostly cars I loved as a kid but could never afford. I always said I'd just buy them when I retire so that's what I did...

My favorite saying:
... Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

—Calvin Coolidge