I have been into cars since I can remember, I used to build anything out of legos. I remember going to the dirt track races and then coming home to build a tube chassis and body for a late model dirt car. I used to go to the drag boat races and then I built a dually and flatbottom boat with a trailer. I had a ton of legos. I did not play with anything else.
Then In high school my first car was piece of junk 66 volvo that I had for a short period of time before I got a 67 chevy truck that got me pulled over once a week for like 14 weeks straight. We used to cruise " Chester" the local cruise spot on friday and saturday nights. Then about 11pm it was off to the street races. There used to be this 67 Chevelle that was red and ran like 12 second passes, I remember when I thought that was fast. It was like seeing a super hott girl everytime you saw the car, you were just quiet and watched it go by......
I have and will always be a huge magazine reader, I can remember reading a Street Rodder magazine talking about Boyd Coddingtons shop, back in the hay day. Before he went to jail, back when anybody who is anybody worked there, Jesse James, Alan Budnik, Chip Foose, Lil john, Steve Davis, and there were a ton more. Those guys did everything and they did it like no other. They had huge resources to do what ever, Boyd had Boyds wheels and they did cars like Cadzilla, Smoothster, Boydsters ( in steel ), He did a tangarine roadster with that had rear mounted northstar, They built the Boyd Aire 57 chevy. I remember thinking I want to build stuff like that some day. I went to my first AMBR show in 92 when it was still in Oakland. These are the things that made me what to continue to build and design just like when I was a kid with Legos.
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