Born humbly in the speed shop of Dean Moon near Los Angeles, the resulting Shelby Cobra would achieve nobility.
In cahoots with a Long Island new-car dealership, the Brooklyn hot-rodder strayed from the usual one-at-a-time approach of speed shops, instead offering standardized packages that stepped up in horsepower and racetrack-ready preparation.
On the town's outskirts, where rents are low and hot-rodders use the county road as a dragstrip, a custom '55 Ford gets a set of loud pipes at a one-bay speed shop.
ONE recent Saturday, Brian Alcazar was hanging out at RCT Performance, a modest speed shop in College Point, Queens, that specializes in squeezing the most performance out of turbocharged and supercharged cars.
The real tribute, she added, "is that it exists at all". 10 P.M. (Discovery) JESSE JAMES: OUTLAW GARAGE Mr. James joins the Austin Speed Shop in Texas as a partner, where his mission is to build the country's best custom-car business.
His first is Gurney's Inn in seaside Montauk, N.Y. 10 P.M. (Discovery) JESSE JAMES: OUTLAW GARAGE Mr. James, the bad-boy former husband of Sandra Bullock, abandons Hollywood for his roots in Texas, where he joins the Austin Speed Shop and attempts to rebuild a 1932 Ford Roadster in just a few weeks.
But So-Cal Speed Shop, the car customizer based in Pomona, Calif., already has several primer-painted cars on the road, including a Ford F-150 truck it displayed at the SEMA show and a Chrysler 300M sedan that Tony Thacker, So-Cal's vice president for marketing, drives.
With the So Cal Special, I hooked up the original builder and owner, Alex Xydias Alex Xydias, with restorer Pete Chapouris Pete Chapouris, which led to their getting together to resurrect the famed So-Cal Speed shop.
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Develop a solid relationship with a speed shop.
