First of all a friendly hello to all of you!
My name is Matti Alexander Bohm. I am 19 years old, a half Finn and live in northern Germany. (in the near of Bremen or Hamburg) I am very interested in old cars (german cars but also american cars!!!) and drive a 1972 german Ford Granada (my third classic). Another hobby of mine is collecting old die cast cars. My collection consists of around 500 old die-casts (Matchbox, Corgi, Dinky, Hot Wheels etc.) and another 300 newer die-cast modelcars. I customize die-casts (scale 1/18 ) and change their engines, colours etc. or I let them look like they were towed out of a barn or scrapyard. The customized models like a Chevy Nomad Gasser, '59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible Rat Rod (with real rust!) or a Volvo Amazon with Corvette Engine built as a 1/4 mile car. These modelcars were already featured in a german car magazine and I also built on request of Revell Germany two prototypes for a (planned) new collection of barnfind models which are shown on the international toy fair in Nuremberg (early february).
Another thing that I like doing is to design cars or especially redesign vintage cars. Hot Rods, Lead Sleds and so on.
Naturally I am interested in automotive engineering and the design of the cars.

I will finish school this year in April and now look for a company that customizes classics or tunes them. I mean companies like Unique Performance, Foose etc. First of all I would like to do an internship (hope you know this word, because I had to translate it via internet!?) and now I look for a company that offers such an internship. After this internship I would return to germany to make an accepted apprenticeship (this takes 3 years) if the company where I did my internship or another would offer me a job, I would return to the USA to work there.
So my question is if anybody of you knows such a company, which is successful in building hot rods, custom cars or something like that and which could need a young creative, german guy?
I would be very delighted about every information or help. Maybe some of you know people who work at these companies or companies analog to the companies mentioned above!?

Thank you for reading and hopefully helping,too.


If anyone would like to see some photos of my car, worked out designs or die-cast model cars, I will post some photos.


Matti Alexander Bohm