Saturday, January 23, 2010
WCC
The world famous West Coast Custom, one of the top car remodeling companies in the world started in 1993 by Ryan Friedlinghaus. It used to be in Los Angeles but now moved to sunny California, Corona. New shops also open in Russia, Australia, Malaysia and Germany. They launched a store in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in November 2007.
West Coast Customs became famous as being the former site for MTV's show Pimp My Ride, hosted together with Xzibit. It also appeared in some locations in the video game, L.A. Rush.
Having their own show now on Discovery Channel Turbo, called Street Customs. The show still has some of the original cast from Pimp My Ride, Ish (Interiors) and Big Dane (Shop Supervisor).
They also started building custom Ford Mustang Cobra cars in collaboration with Caroll Shelby, the man famous for the first Ford Mustang Cobras in the '60s. On the Caroll Shelby edition, Ryan and his team built a Mustang Cobra and invited him to see product and giving him a surprise by handing the car to him as a gift.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Chip foose, born on October 13, 1963 one of the top designers in the car industry and one of my idols.
He has the most prestigious car award, Ridlers award, over and over again. He has revolutionised the car world by making some of the coolest cars ever. He has also a given back by making cars for the poor and sick, turning their cars into nothing anyone has ever seen. If you want to know more, you can catch the show on discovery turbo.
After completing his studies, he worked at Boyd Coddington, also a top car designer's shop. But when Boyd's shop faced bankrupcy, he left and started his own shop, Foose design. In November 1997, he was the youngest person to be inducted into the Hot Rod Hall Of Fame. Now, he still continues to desgin and make cars.
Introduction
So, heres my blog on cars for my LA classes,
In this blog, you are going to know more about cars and the lifestyle.
So you might ask, why cars?
Well i feel that they are very interesting, they are just amazing creation of engeneering, for example some cars can top 300 km/h!
Secondly, they look sleek and when i grow up, i want to design cars for a living.
I think that if i desgin cars, i will have an impact on the world.
I feel exhilerated when i see some of the most expensive cars, the sleekest cars pass by. I also feel that cars have change our way of living forever. They enable us to move faster from one place to another and thus saving time. if not for cars, i wouldn't be able to go to school!
In this blog, you are going to know more about cars and the lifestyle.
So you might ask, why cars?
Well i feel that they are very interesting, they are just amazing creation of engeneering, for example some cars can top 300 km/h!
Secondly, they look sleek and when i grow up, i want to design cars for a living.
I think that if i desgin cars, i will have an impact on the world.
I feel exhilerated when i see some of the most expensive cars, the sleekest cars pass by. I also feel that cars have change our way of living forever. They enable us to move faster from one place to another and thus saving time. if not for cars, i wouldn't be able to go to school!
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