Your inspiration

Okay, we got our chance to brag about our tallents, so now lets hear about your inspiration...

I am completely bewildered by invention. I'm not talking about a new pine scented dildo with an anal tickler. I'm talking about long ago befor you could go to school to get a degree in mechanical engineering, before it had all been figured out. When an inventing an automobile would get you thrown in a mental asylum or trying to find a way to make explosives safe so that you don't kill any more of your family and friends. Those were the days of true tallent! Like I said before, it all makes sense to me, but to tell you that I came up with an idea fresh out of my head would be a lie. Everything that I do has been done before, somewhere.

As far as someone that is alive today that I look up to, I would have to say that Roger Goldammer www.goldammercycle.com is one of the best fabricators out there. His work is simply amazing! He won the AMD World Championship (the highest award possible for a custom motorcycle builder) with a bike that is also a top speed world record holder. Most full custom bikes are a huge compromise of design and function, but his bike is fully capable. He is a true inspirstion indeed!

I have to say that i look up to Roger and the guys at Ironworks speed and custom and Chris and his gang at Fesler built. Both guys are badass at what they do for sure.

I also watch Brians(lost cause) and Keefs work for the inspiration that one day i might just paint my car to which the levelthey paint at.

I am often inspired by trophy trucks, dune buggies, sand rails, rock crawlers. Stuff that is built with a purpose, built well, and built to take a beating. Its impressive to me.

Also, people that can really shape metal impresses me. I'm not bad at it, but I'm not great, and I am truly inspired when I look at things like this.

Im inspired by so much out there it would be hard to list it all or narrow it down that much. But i will say watching the work of guys like Max, Seth, Lost Cause etc... inspire me to keep doin great work and try and better it each time i start something new. fellas

im with keef on that, there's so many people that i wish my work could equal to that it just makes me do my best that i can to achieve it. but the main thing keeping me going with my neon is my acro sticker that is on my fridge. I will not put it on my car until its worthy of the sticker

Mine is no one anyone knows, he's not famous and probally never will be known, but my "brother"! I met him about 11 years ago driving a hammered s10, staticed and dragging on every pebble in the road! After meeting him we became best friends, considered each other brothers, been there for each other since. He taught me what I know about trucks and I have advanced myself since then! He is no longer into it the way he was but I continue leaning and will hopefully open my own shop to the level of some of the things I've seen on here and throught the sport.

Watching my dad build his hotrod for the entire duration of my childhood was a huge inspiration for me. Just getting to hang out with him while he fabricated the smallest piece and logging countless miles following him through swap meets and junkyards in search of the perfect example of whatever he needed at the time are experiences I wouldn't trade for anything.

The fabricators that were showcased in Mini Truckin thec articles back in like 92-93 when I first got into the sport made a big impact on me as well. Guys like Brian Jendro, John Tondro, Sean Mahaney etc were real pioneers of the sport and the little black and white photos of their work made were my only window into mini truck fabrication at the time. I always wanted to emulate what I saw them do on my little Datsun 720.

All the street rod fabricators that keep pushing the street rod movement forward for all these decades have and continue to inspire me as well. There are people in our scene now who do the same thing, people who aren't willing to accept "well it worked for my buddy" as an answer. People who push the boundries of the sport and are willing to share their knowledge with others in the interest of growing the sport further and better.

I have over half of my life in the sport now, maybe I'll be the Bill Hines of the mini truck scene someday if I keep pushing. Only time can tell I guess.

I am often inspired by the art side of things and the people before me.I love oldschool sleds even old pictures/paintings.Gives me a sense of history and the fact that I am continuing something not just doing it.

I would have to say that a close friend of my family aka Uncle Joey inspired me to try any type of fabwork. He had a local shop called Off Road Productions. He mostly built sandrails, but he also built a bunch of drag cars and a few Trophy Trucks. Now days I really like looking Trophy Trucks and Pre-Runners for Ideas.