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Jeb: I'm not sure that most people understand. I'm not sure that I really understood what
it was going to take to build a car from nothing. It's an astraunomical line of work. Sometimes
less is more, especially in this world. You can go to a point where you cross the line,
and then it becomes tacky, and having that balance and be able to see the lines, and
see where you need to make adjustment to even the body. I make them how I want to make them,
and I make adjustments to everyone, not any of them are the same, I always change stuff.
I think it's just a part of me. I like to challenge myself, and I think that's what
the aluminum dually really was. If he gets to a point where I got beans full of parts
that I can just go get, and then put on the car where they need to be, I think I would
be like bored senseless if I can't just make every piece. I like it to be completely handmade
and I like to look that way. I guess it was not released to much on this, on this earth
that's like driving a truck like that. It is what it is, you don't have padding in the
seats, you definitely need earplugs to drive it. It's a little too loud.
That's the point, I mean, what is hot rodding about. If you had a hot rod, it didn't have
headers that's stick out beside it, and need the hood on it. The shop is my grandfather's
old general store. His nickname was Cutworm, and if wouldn't for him, I wouldn't have the
shop, so the Cutworm is sort of a salute to him. He loved them all the way, and if he
were here and he could see this, he would just think it was incredible.
It's pretty special to have that connection with the model A, like my grandfather did,
and the fact that I'm building them from scratch, it's pretty special dually part of that, to
sort of have that sort of love for the same car that he did. Creatively, I think there
is a bit more focus at night. It's like you're the mad scientist in his workshop, it's dark
outside, and no one is awake, and the spark flying, and we definitely get more done during
the night. Hot rodding per se is a totally different
world of the automobile. These things that we're building, it's not something that you'll
ever be able to just go to a dealership and test drive and buy. It's not your father's
Ford. We can fight but we will win, that's one of those things, that you play that game
back and forth when you build things all the time. Can you suffer through that and still
come out on top? Sometimes that's bad but is it worth it to be cool, is it worth it
you to get what you're trying to achieve? Absolutely.
Hot rodding in general is about that, that's what it's always been about to anyone, is
back in the day when hot rods first came out, the cool guys had the hot rods, so it's been
a tradition, that's what hot rodding is about, being cool. It doesn't really matter if you're
comfortable.