My Greatest Years

The General Writes a Book Mike Mattos who is better known as the General, the Tank Man or the Wire Man has just released his autobiography, My Greatest Years. For years he has been a familiar local celebrity in the Modesto, California 4th of July parades, where he drives his famous Red, White & Blue tank wearing his chrome helmet. He pops wheelies, spins donuts and shoots bubble gum and candy out the cannon for kids throughout the parade route. Learn how this fun loving, thrill seeking entrepreneur worked only six and a half months and partied for five and a half months per year. He tells how he built a better product and beat the biggest steel companies in the world by using better marketing skills and a quality product. He then took on the US Patent office and got a patent and a trademark when they said it could not be done. He also sold fishing lures all over the world by simply using free publicity. In this book he tells you how he did all this. He gives you money saving tips in his Quick Facts and Words of Wisdom sections. He also tells you how to avoid getting a traffic ticket when pulled over by the Highway Patrol. You will find this information in his Ticket Saving Tips section. This book is interesting, provocative, entertaining, humorous and contains a wealth of information that anyone can use. Just one money saving tip can save you many times the small cost of this most interesting book.