I can't believe ANYONE would spend big dollars at a shop like this. The "insert" for the grill was SAD, again HUGE gaps. The windshield was set at SOOOOO the wrong angle! It needed to mimic the grill angle. Anyone ever see Chip Foose or Troy Trepanier SLAP their own gigantic LOGO on the side of a customer car? No? Me neither and for GOOD REASON.
The '33 body line just below the top of the door trim simply stopped because they apparently didn't think they needed it to continue! Plus, because they simply don't have an eye for design, they added RIDICULOUS little "swirly-ques" of metal on the "skirts" and other places. After working years for a top fuel drag racing team and then a nationally renowned hot rod shop, Chris decided to move back to his hometown and share his talents with the folks on the East Coast. You could drive cars through the gaps and none of the body "contours" resolved in anything that approached what you'd hope to see. Rust to Riches (RTR) was founded by Chris Hegge and Steve Motichka, for their pure passion and talent for, initially, the art of antique vehicle restoration, customization, and finishing. It also helps you identify mine ruins from their. I can't believe the owner didn't sue them for what they did to that thing. This book, although a dry read, contains great information about the construction of mines in the west.
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The "fit and finish" was beyond amateurish. Car Masters: Rust to Riches is a series that is destined to stay - it has the energy of an endless reality show due to the widening scope of what the crew. If that were my car, I'd seriously just torch it and not tell anyone I was involved. Between 19, for example, Ohios manufacturing employment fell more rapidly than the nations as a whole, plunging from approximately 22 in 1990 to about 14 in 2007. That '33 to what ever that thing was, was just embarrassing. Decades of industrial decline have taken a toll on Ohio, one of the hardest-hit Rust Belt states.