CAR DREAMS: They arrived in Santa Barbara about 20 years ago with two kids, no jobs or money, but with dreams of a better life than the one they left behind in crime-ridden L.A.
Woody and Angela Robinson moved into one of Dario Pini’s cracker boxes, and Woody hit the streets looking for a job polishing cars. But no one would trust a new kid in town, a black guy from South Carolina, with Montecitans’ BMWs and Mercedes.
He looked around and didn’t see many black-owned businesses. It didn’t look good.