I’d always wondered why we couldn’t make sensors for cameras take all of the information, both the light and the dark? Why are we always stuck with either one or the other? If you’re taking a picture of somebody’s face you can use a lot of tricks, you can expose for the face and use a light to pick up the back or you can use a flash to light up the people after you expose for the back. But I hate using my flash. I absolutely hate it. I’d rather set up my camera on a tripod and wait 40 seconds to record it all. I want to get a picture that represents what I’m seeing.
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Taking something that is mundane, regular and plain-looking and turning it into something that is almost a work of art, to be able to ride around on something like that – I can’t find the words for it. It’s nothing like anything else I have ever felt. It’s something special. It’s an amazing feeling to take something and turn it into something else and have people appreciate it. That’s the best feeling in the world, it’s just amazing, it really is. A lot of ideas I have only come about when I’m right there, working on it. A lot of it happens right there, in the spur of the moment.
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I learned hands-on. At first I was a babysitter at our shop, SunBelt Customs, helping here and there, but as the business grew and more customers and cars started coming in, I told my partner, “if show me how you do it and I guarantee you that I can do that.” I’d done body work with my dad, but I learned in the school-taught way to do things at the shop. That’s how I learned everything I know: being at the shop every single day.
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I didn’t even have an official shop and I’d already been in eight or nine magazines and gotten two Top 10 Cars of the Year awards, which are extremely coveted. At that point I basically crossed my fingers and opened up a shop in Simi Valley and soon we had another Top 10 Car, but at the same time, I basically lived in my shop. Life’s very different when you live in an industrial complex. The building had no heat, no A/C, so it’s either extremely cold or scorching hot. I joined a gym so I had somewhere to shower! That’s how Pure Vision came to be. I was really surprised. I never thought anybody would pay me to build a car for them.
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Just think if you were in a coma for thirty years and you woke up from the 50s and laid your eyes on a hybrid. Compared to a ’57 Chevy? The new cars, yes, are good for the economy, the environment, they’re green – but they have no class compared to the old cars. None.
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The Spitfire needed a lot of body work. Everything needed to be rebuilt, the brakes, the steering, the shocks, the suspension. Everything rubber was completely rotted. I had a friend help me; he knew what he was doing. But he was just there to show me how to do it. I had to do it myself.
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