my name is josh as a boy growing up i was always into old cars my dad was a mechanic and was always building up cars and trucks, ive always had a p***ion for old cars, or anything old. as a kid i would go to junk yards with my dad asking him if we could save and fix up every car that we came upon, if i could build all the cars i have built in my head id be worth billions of dollars lol. i would always go scroungen around my grandpas junkyard (trash hill) looking for anything cool and bring it home, bottles, signs, parts of cars whatever was old, alot of my family had antique shops so i was around all this stuff growing up. i was also into art from birth also, as soon as i picked up a pencil i was drawing. when i turned sixteen i finaly got a vehicle of my own and the first thing i did was tear it apart c notch the frame and put airbags on it and paint it, then i did a chop on a 66 chevy truck. when i was about 20 years old i got a job at a custom paint shop where i learned airbrushing and custom paint, when i was about 22 i opened my own custom paint shop painting motorcycles, i always wanted to get more into doin street rods along with my airbrushing but livin in a small town i never really got the opertunity to bring street rods into my shop and worked so much i didnt have the time for my own, finaly about a year ago i ran into a local old school builder that told me to come up to the street rod shop that he worked that they could use someone like me, so as awesome luck had it i got a job building street rods, where ive learned so much stuff in the past year its amazing, its just me and the old school builder eddie doin street rods, eddie has so much talent its ashame he hasnt got publicity for his work cause he is over the top talented. and the another awsome part is they want to try and get more custom paint work to, so i will get the best of both worlds airbrushing and building hot rods, im very blessed to be in the position im in, cause im a true car guy i eat sleep and breath this stuff it is my pasion, only people that are the same know what im talking about you are born with it.
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