Custom or not to customize

StrokerCutlass, yep, no matter what others say, do it your way. In my spare time I paint abstract art and it's good therapy. Most people do not understand that type of art because it is out of the mainstram, but there exists a small but well funded audience for art that does not look like current trends in abstracts. That's were I come in.

We grew up with a Dad who was bent on being different. With long hair, earrings, hot rodding/customizing everything he drove or owned (he even painted his 1920's 22 room house blue with purple shutters, pinstriped doors and window frames). he stood 6-4 with 20 inch arms and was definitely the talk of the town (he even made a few houston newspapers) back in the 1950's. He taught us to be the rebels to defy convenmtion and do whatever made us happy regsardless of what others thought. That attitude was ingrained in all of us 12 kids. Even my own are set on being unique. We never follow the current fad, just do our own thing.

Because my taste borders on extreme and as a lifelong rodder and customizer, I'm not into restorations. And good for us wacky modifiers and the thousands of shops like Ring bros. There is a small portion of the the population-the abbynormals-who will screw up a manufactured vehicle. We only want to deal with that exclusive group who don't mind showing others that they are unique. But hey, if you want to restore it, go, man go. I stripe lot's of restos and they pay good.

No matter what our differences are, we are all rolling on this wheel together, maybe on a different spoke, but the we all love cars and that's how it is.

Mikey

 

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I sit firmly on the custom fence, although I can always apprieciate a bone stock car that has been maintained or brought back from the brink of the bone yard.