KustomP15

I've always had a nostalgic respect for Classic America (50's and earlier) and have always appreciated the wild and concept like designs in cars that you just don't see anymore today. I'm still in my 20's but it just seems like things were so much cooler back then. Most notably for me, were the cars. The very first old car I fell in love with was a '57 Buick Roadmaster coupe I saw sitting in a yard full of Buicks. Everyone kept passing this car over and buying other ones not realizing what this car even was. Unfortunately I was only 17 and didn't have the measly $1,500 to buy the car. When I finally did, I returned to the lot to find that all the cars were gone and the lot was cleared of any evidence of it ever being there. That was my one that got away. Over the last few years I started getting into muscle cars quite a bit buying my first project which was a '68 Firebird in '06. Later that year I followed that up with a '69 Camaro. Then recently I noticed that you just don't see that many rods and kustoms anymore. Then, my buddy took me for a cruise in his '23 T-Bucket in '08 and later his '56 Olds and all the hootin' and hollerin' those things received made me realize something. Even though you don't see hot rods and kustoms as much as before, they still command the respect you'd normally get with an exotic car. Even though muscle cars are the big thing right now (don't get me wrong, I still like some muscle cars quite a bit) they still don't grip the attention that hot rods and kustoms still do. I realized that the reason for this is because 50's and earlier kustoms and hot rods looked so different from what can be found in showrooms today. So full of identity and personality. So late last year (2008) I decided to sell my Firebird and picked up a '47 Plymouth Special Deluxe coupe that was in the process of being chopped along with some custom rear framework when the owner decided he was done with it. Then earlier this year (2009) I decided that if I was going to get my kustom going I would have to divert all my focus to one car so I ended up selling my camaro. I had a fabricator in Mira Loma finish the chop (he did a heck of a job) and I'm currently in the process of throwing (or shoving) a Caddy 429 in it. When It's all done it'll have been chopped 4-5 inches (front to back), bagged, shaved, nosed, decked, and will have a custom grille I rendered myself. So here we go!