Leo Montaño started Tucson Alternator Exchange in 1979 after nearly three decades of experience in the automobile industry.
Every day at 7 a.m., the 88-year-old takes a six-mile bicycle ride.He started his business, Tucson Alternator Exchange, in 1979, after nearly three decades of experience in the automobile industry.
The business manufactures new alternators and refurbishes used ones, and Montaño still works on generators. People are also reading… His career began when he was 15 years old and went to work for his uncle at Tucson Generator Exchange, where he would clean generators in cleaning chemicals with his bare hands.
The couple met at Salpointe Catholic High School and were part of the school’s first graduating class in 1953.“I was making $2 an hour at the time,” Montaño recalled. “But I got a raise of 10 cents an hour when my wife was pregnant.”All but two of the children still live in Tucson.Tucson Alternator Exchange manufactures and sells alternators and generators but does not service cars.
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