Brewing Up Your Own Automobile

摘要

Building and modifying automobiles has been a national pastime since the Duryea brothers set up the first American car manufacturing company. For some, the hobby becomes an obsession. Watch the movie La Mission , which is about a group of low-rider enthusiasts whose automotive design creations are really works of art, or check out Houston's Art Car Parade (artcars.com/php/blogs/index.php/ACW2009) to see how far these car enthusiasts can take a project. For decades, these automotive design projects started with an existing automobile or motorcycle and then, let the modifications begin. What began in the 1940s and '50s as hot rods, jalopies and roadsters, with modified engines and cut up bodies, became dune buggies, muscle cars and low riders of the '60s, '70s and '80s. Our fascination with the automobile has never ended. But our tools have changed.