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A local radio host was so attached to his old Chevelle that his family had repairs completed so they could fulfill his last wishes and drive his ashes around town.

A 100-year-old Gallup fire truck is getting an overhaul for an upcoming city parade, and a New York City client has ordered up a complete redo of a 52-year-old ambulance, just for fun.

Doing the surgery on all these vehicles 鈥� inside and out 鈥� is Joalda Rockwell, her husband, Jason Rockwell, and their company, Rebel Road Hot Rod Garage in Albuquerque.

Joalda, who initially knew nothing about cars or business ownership, gets a little emotional when she talks about putting more than 800 classic cars back on the road since opening the business five years ago.

A car is 鈥渟omeone鈥檚 history, someone鈥檚 life,鈥� she says. 鈥淪o to work on cars that have outlived some of the owners, that are passed down and create a memory for someone 鈥� it鈥檚 a huge part of things we鈥檝e done for people that I don鈥檛 think you can get doing anything else.鈥�

The business has grown a fan following and recently moved into a space that鈥檚 twice the size of previous locations.

Rockwell 鈥� who describes herself as a former 鈥淪ection 8 teen mom, who has absolutely crawled her way to where she is now鈥� 鈥� dreamed up the business and incorporated it as a gift to her husband. A young Jason was so into fixing cars that his dad created a pretend business with the name Rebel Road after the street that ran near their Tennessee home.

It was during the pandemic that Joalda, then 25, jumped into the venture with her husband, and he taught her all he knew about car innards and how to fix them.

That was important to her.

鈥淲e have a shop in our backyard, and so he taught me how to weld, how to fabricate, really, how to do a lot of the stuff,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want to be the pretty girl that just sits behind the desk. I do know what I鈥檓 talking about.鈥�

Did you ever think the business would be so successful?

No, I didn鈥檛, actually. Jason and I had kind of always joked that we would start a hot rod shop when we retired, because we both like to work on older cars. But it was totally a hobby.

You started with no experience. How did you manage?

I had no business background whatsoever. I had never, aside from ordering parts, stepped foot in an automotive shop as far as employment ever, so everything that we have done, all of my processes, all of my policies, all of that has been based on what I have learned here.

What has been difficult about doing this?

Jason and I don鈥檛 come from money at all, no rich uncle, no trust fund babies. We have done this with the help of Jason鈥檚 parents, but other than that, we have the financial side of things (to deal with). There鈥檚 been times where we couldn鈥檛 afford to get our kids school supplies, you know, we鈥檙e surviving off mac and cheese and ramen noodles, and sometimes Jason and I are not eating, and as long as the kids are fed, it鈥檚 fine. I guess we want this so bad that there is no second plan, that there is no other choice but for this to work.

Do you have a favorite project Rebel Road has worked on?

My favorite project is a 1966 Ford F-100 that belongs to a gentleman in Placitas. It originally belonged to his dad. When his dad passed away, he inherited the truck. (He) is now completely upgrading the truck; something his dad had long talked about doing. The truck has been completely modified, and our customer is extremely grateful in getting it back on the road. What a beautiful sentiment to his father, expressed through a 1966 F-100.

Do you drive an old classic?

Right now, my daily is a beautiful 2020 Suburban. But I do have a 1984 Nissan 720 King Cab that was my dad鈥檚. It has a crack in the motor, so the motor needs to be completely replaced. I have a 1957 Ford Fairlane that my father-in-law gave to me as a gift. It鈥檚 a boat. She鈥檚 out in the back right now. It鈥檚 going to be totally custom, very luxury inside, the whole thing. So that鈥檚 going to be the one that we鈥檙e working on.

Any difficulty being in a male-dominated profession?

I have two whammies. I have the age discrimination because it鈥檚 like there鈥檚 a child behind the desk. And then there鈥檚 being a woman. It was like, 鈥淗ow does this young girl even know what she鈥檚 talking about?鈥� So, it鈥檚 really learning how to manipulate a conversation to get someone to like me first, and then I can talk to them about whatever. It was difficult. Jason owned a restoration shop before. He did sandblasting, and then he did restorations, and so a lot of people were calling this 鈥淛ason鈥檚 shop.鈥� I love him so much, but it鈥檚 not Jason鈥檚 shop. It鈥檚 not my shop. It鈥檚 Rebel Road 鈥� our shop. It took a lot of overcorrecting.

What鈥檚 your advice about starting a business?

That鈥檚 such a good question. I love that. I think the best advice, really, is 鈥� you have to learn to get over the fear side. This whole thing is incredibly fear-mongering. Every day I wake up, I鈥檓 in fear, but the other side of that is success.

Any role models?

I don鈥檛 want it to sound conceited, but my role model literally is the person that I know I am in 10 years. That is my role model, because I know that there鈥檚 this visceral pull to whoever she is. I don鈥檛 know what that will be, but I do know that whoever she is, she鈥檚 going to be a monster. She is going to be that role model for a bunch of young girls and young boys, and I know that her kids are going to be incredibly proud of her. That鈥檚 who I chase.

Ellen Marks, a former Journal editor, writes One-on-One profiles and Scam Watch. You can reach her at emarks@abqjournal.com.