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Well it's coming along nicely Fory...if you put as much effort into your test as you have your car then you had to have aced it!... by the way, you must be a fan of George Barris...and if you don't know who that is or was, ask your dad or grandpa, he was one dude back in the 50's.

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Those guys are my idols, man! Barris, Winfield, Hines, Ayala Bros... They are some of the guys the shaped kustoms and hot rods into what we know and love today. My biggest inspiration is Larry Watson. That man was a visionary! He did things so off the wall, and had know idea how they would be excepted... He pulled it off so well, though, that we look at those paint jobs as kind of the norm for that period. I can only imagine what people thought when they saw the first lace paint job on that 63 Grand Prix rolling around town... Wish I could've met him before he passed.