Personally, me...I like the look of customized cars. Even if it means it may be out of style 10 years from now. I love it. Everything we have from the clothes we wear, to our hairstyles, the curtains/furniture in our houses, etc has a "time factor" so to speak. So, these builds are no different in the grand scheme of things. Trust me, if I had it like that, three shops that I would run to for them to build me a car are Greening Auto, Roadster Shop and Ring Brothers. I know there are others out there who may be considered far better builders in other peoples opinion, but I love the builds these three shops do with all of the custom one-off billet pieces, etc. The thing is with these super builds as I would call them, the owners probably have little say so in my opinion. Sure, the builders run almost everything by them and get some sort of approval, but most of the time these rich guys are all too familiar with the work and craftsmenship of the builder and already know who they're dealing with and what kind of high quality work they put out. So, I'm sure the rich guy says
"I have $550k budget, here's my car and I want a Ridler contender or I want it done by SEMA, etc." then just drops the car off with a huge deposit and that's when the shop gets to working on the car 40 hours a week pretty much and stays on it and it becomes there baby for the next 10 months in order to present it for the top car of that year and be in all of the magazines like Inferno and Viscious. Also, they leave much of the design fabrication up to the builder and his imagination. Think about it, these guys are just rich and are probably not designers or fabricators. LOL!! So, the builder models something like the rear taillights in modelworks or whatever 3D software he uses and emails a pic of it to the owner and since it has probably never been done before, the owner so calls loves it. All the owner knows is it's one-off and it's guaranteed that no one else will have it. One thing about it is, I'll probably never have a car like this built, but if I did, the builder would be mad at me because soon as it was finished I want my damn car. There would be no keeping it for a year or so showing it all around the country. I'm picking my car up from the second it finished.
