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Danilo Coto Cruz is the Founder of PACTO where he makes vintage style racing helmets, gloves, visors, and shoes. His hand crafted goods are born from a time past, made through a carefully crafted and elaborated process creating a true sentiment of a golden era for automotive fanatics all over the world. Danilo is a construction engineer who started PACTO from his passion for vintage sports racing. He’s been collecting and restoring vintage motorcycles since 1998, building marques including Norton, BSA, Triumph, Zundapp, Lambretta and the German NSU. Danilo is the President of the vintage motorcycle club in Costa Rica.
Danilo’s friend and past Cars Yeah guest Eduardo Santella is offering a 15% discount on Dieseldorff Kaffee, good until September 30, 2022. Use code: MARKCARSYEAH on their website here: Dieseldorff Kaffee
SHOW SPONSORS
Covercraft • American Collectors Insurance • Autogeek • Linkage Magazine • Techforce Foundation • RPM Foundation • BumBee Seat
INSPIRATION
Buying a vintage motorcycles helmet after buying a vintage bike lead to the development of PACTO.
CHALLENGE
Creating his first helmet took three years to make that was very frustrating and caused numerous challenges.
SPECIAL VEHICLE
1955 Ford Fairlane
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Automotive Price Guides when researching cars to buy
WORDS OF INSPIRATION
Being a small business will make you more happy.
“You must always strive to be the best but you must never believe you are.” – Juan Manuel Fangio
WHERE TO FIND DANILO
SHARE THE INSPIRATION
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