Over the past ten years, while working in the automotive and motor-sports industry’s I’ve heard some pretty cool sounds coming out of some amazing vehicles, roaring engines, loud exhausts, tires burning against the blacktop and the list goes on and on. Those sounds send a burst of adrenaline through my body and get by blood…
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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 want girls out there to know that you can be sexy and still bust a knuckle. You don’t have to look like one of the boys to be respected and treated like one of the boys. You won’t catch me in Dickies — I like my cute outfits while I’m working on my car. Working on my car gives me a sense of control, it makes me feel really sexy to repair something and experience the results of such hard work. And there is nothing wrong with looking good when you’re doing it.
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You may be at the Grand National Roadster Show, a Mooneyes event, or even Tiki Highway. One thing that you will most likely see is the bold and determined “propaganda” style artwork of the incomparable Max Grundy. Coming from a long line of car guys he struggled with the hot rod genre while getting his…
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Fathers Day weekend in Southern California host many events. The longest lasting and most enduring must be the LA Roadsters Show at the Fairplex in Pomona. There have to be more ’32 Roadsters there, then even Henry Ford himself has seen in any one setting. I joked a couple of years ago that they should…
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Pep Boys kicked into high gear during the months of May and June opening three new Speed Shops back to back to…back! Yes three new Speed Shops on the East-coast! Yahoooo! Team EBC Brakes and I traveled from Los Angeles to join well-known names and brands in the biz to celebrate the openings of the…
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