Horace Williams came up on the south side of Los Santos during the late seventies and eighties. The streets were hard back then. His mother worked nights trying to keep a roof over their heads. His father wasn’t around. The neighborhood became his teacher.
As a teenager he started running with a local set. A convenience store job went bad when he was seventeen. One of his boys panicked, a shot was fired, and Horace took the weight. He did a few years upstate.
When he came home he didn’t want to go back to what got him locked up. He picked up work at a small garage, cleaning floors and learning engines. That’s where he found his real lane. He had a gift for cars. Over time he built a name for himself in the growing car scene. Imports were coming in from Japan, muscle cars were being rebuilt, and people were gathering at night to race through industrial zones and long empty highways. He became one of the first faces in Los Santos’ growing car scene in the nineties.
Through that scene, he linked up with the group that built what’s now Barlowe’s Custom and Repairs, headed by Duke Barlowe, the name painted on the door then and now.
Horace had a son named Darnell. Darnell was shot and killed in a drive-by at nineteen. That loss changed Horace forever.
Now in his fifties, Horace is still active in the scene. He often shows up at night meets and backstreet runs. Horace brings a lot of young racers in, gives them garage time, and teaches them how to build a car from the ground up.
Horace “OG Horse” Williams was there when the Los Santos car scene was born. One of the first to make it real.
