El Jefé

The Family Man.

- Mike Alexander

Growing up a die-hard mini-trucker, Ernie Macias always had dreams and aspirations of one day building a full-custom mini and have it grace the cover of Mini Truckin’ magazine. Ernie always goes after his dreams, and turns these dreams into goals, and said goals into plans of action. So he was well on his way to earning his first cover shoot in 2002 (see the February 2003 issue of MT). But anyone who knows “Big Ern” as well as we do, also knows he wasn’t going to stop there. Two more covers later, Ernie had made a new goal to become an editor at his favorite magazine. When the time came, he was first in line after the job-opening announcement. After a series of interviews, Ernie’s passion for custom trucks had shown through, and despite having no real editorial, writing, photography, or any other useful media skills, how could we pass up the chance to hire Ernie? That way, we kept the Mini Truckin’ legacy of real mini truckers running their favorite rag.