As a hotrodder and car nut, I was initially thrilled by all the clean stuff out there when I became an Angeleno, but truth be told I got tired of it quickly. Everybody seems to have the same cars. Datsun 510s were big, everybody and their brother had a suicide-door conti, an everyone had big-dollar, fiberglass bodied hot rods that they called rat rods. Sorry, not a rat rod.
I actually turned down a job at Hollywood Hot Rods after three interviews. It wasn't about making rods, it was big business.
