Mansha Sil
Professor John Lee
WRC 1013.040
18 September 2013
All Souped-Up Texas is all this Harlingen native knows but with the beach only 15 minutes away, Trenton Capps never had a dull weekend. After moving to Los Fresnos, Texas with his family, who he dearly misses, Mr. Capps found fun in 4 X 4-ing almost every weekend with the occasional incident of getting stuck. Though the sand flying out from under his tires is a fun hobby this pre-pharmacy major has a set future ahead that includes his passion for cars. Coming to UTSA was a big move for this freshman and the 4-hour distance from home leaves him a little nostalgic. “I hate the parking situation,” says Capps when asked what bothers him about the school. “Its especially hard when you have a huge lifted truck,” he continues on. When asked about his passion, Trenton didn’t hesitate to say it was his truck. When he was a sophomore he bought his beloved 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche from his father for 5000 dollars. Since then he has put about 6000 dollars into making it be the best truck it can be. With bright eyes and smile, Capps continued to tell me the customizations he had made on his truck which included a lift, rims, tires, motor upgrades, green lights and much more. When asked if he liked to show off his truck Capps laughed and responded, “I actually go to these truck hangouts every Friday.” He went on to explain that at the truck hangouts they all park and just look at each other’s trucks and talk about each one and all the upgrades that have been added on and suggestions on what could be done to make it better. “My truck is one of the smaller ones but everyone loves the customizations I’ve done to it,” Capps said proudly. He even went on a side story on how a cop stopped him just to talk about how cool his truck was. “Yeah, he pulled up his car next to mine and we compared lights and their brightness and we just talked about everything that I did to it,” Capps said. Not all the cops are so enticed with it though, “I got a citation because one of the UTSA cops saw my green lights and alleged me of having drugs in them or something, it was so stupid…. but his backup thought they were really cool and I got the citation dropped,” Capps chuckled. As the truck talk continued, Trenton went on saying that he mowed lawns and cleaned pools to earn all the money he needed for his truck and then some, “it paid really well, I would make at least $300 a weekend.” Though he made sufficient funds throughout his high school years, Capps earned is Pharmacy Technician degree and plans on working in a Pharmacy through out college. His intended major of