As hot rodders, we’ve become accustomed to making a mess of things, literally speaking. It’s how we got started, and unless we morph into another segment of the kit car industry, it’s how we’ll continue.
Just think about it. What did the very first hot rodder do? He ruined a perfectly good stock automobile, that’s what he did. And same goes for the first to create what we now consider a custom car. Granted, hot rods were modified for the sake of performance; customs, on the other hand, well, you can’t very well credit “streamlining for fuel efficiency” as the reason behind chopping a top now, can you?
These days, manufacturers surely have the aftermarket in mind when designing new performance models. But 50-75 years ago, the last thing any…
