Editor’s note: An occasional series on the people who have helped build Manteca as the city gets ready to celebrate the 100th anniversary of incorporation this year. By DENNIS WYATT The Bulletin The year the City of Manteca turned 50, Johnny Umipeg sold his first new Ford. It was a 1969 Ford TLD sedan with a base sticker price of $3,110 complete with cutting edge retractable headlight covers that his customer drove off the lot at 555 North Main Street.