PARKSPLUG READER PROFILE

Editor’s note:  Each week–or at least every once in a while–we’ll profile one of our readers.  Right now, we only have one reader, so for the foreseeable future, we’ll be profiling him over and over.  

Parksplug reader and Olds Alero Fan Cwaig Gwant

Cwaig Gwant says the first thing people want to know upon meeting him is, how did he get his unusual name?  “When my mother was a kid, she was trying to lick cake icing off a whirling electric beater.  The doctor managed to unfurl her tongue, but after that, when she talked, her  R‘s were all messed up,” said Gwant solemnly.

Cwaig considers himself a “car guy,” and is in the process of building a tribute 1998 Oldsmobile Alero Pace Car out of parts he’s found alongside the interstate.  

“So far, I have some door trim, a motor mount and a wiper motor,” he said, pointing to some greasy parts sitting near a blackened wall in the garage.  “My friend Buckley and I were spraying each other with brake cleaner and I guess we were too close to the water heater,” he explained, pointing to the wall.    

What does Cwaig enjoy most about Parksplug?  “I don’t know,” he replied.