Posting as suggested after I join.

Been a car nut ever since I can remember. Having grown up in Europe I was into European cars for the most part. Dad was a big Bentley fan and has an appreciation for British cars in general. He's had a ton of Bentleys, everything from the prewar Bentley beasts to the modern stuff.

I grew up a huge racing fan and loved Porsches and rallye cars (Lancia Stratos mostly). As I got old enough to buy my own cars, I dabbled more in Italian cars for fun and German cars for daily duties, steering away from British cars since Dad was such a British car guy.

The thing about modern cars is they're all becoming to be the same thing. I remember one could relatively easily tell the difference between a car's drive by feel alone. Heck, you could tell if it was a German or Italian car by just shutting the door. Driving a Ferrari on the freeway at 60mph feels not so different from driving a Toyota nowadays.

So I got into classic cars. After meeting some great folks I realized it may not be for me. Great to look at but maybe not as great as I'd like to own.

I had never really looked into classic American cars though. Went the muscle car route and saw the market explode to the point of being ridiculous. So I started looking at the prewar cars and was really amazed at the cars out there. Far better than their European counterparts a lot of the times. A friend of mine has a Deusenberg and the thing absolutely blew me away. The complexity and and the technology for such an old car is magnificent.

Again, not exactly the sort of thing that you want to drive everyday or even close to it. Then I discovered what to me was a pretty unexplored part of the automotive world in rods and customs. Really fantastic stuff.

I love the do-it-yourself, incredibly customized, and deeply personal culture of rods and customs. So here I am. I have extensive driving experience with all sorts of different cars. I pride myself in having had a lot of different cars I've driven a good amount on (not just around the block but a few hundred miles). Rare stuff like Dad's old prewar racing Bentley, to my Lamborghini Murcielago which I drove over 20k miles in the first year. But I've never had the pleasure of being behind the seat of something that one could essentially build completely to their liking.

I look forward to learn and ask dumb questions until you're all sick of me. Don't have much to give back to the community other than my own knowledge if anyone is interested in stuff I know and respect to those who contribute.

Cheers!