I've been in the automotive industry for over 25 years, and during that time I've learned some hard lessons, the very first lesson that I learned is that I belong in the car restoration industry, I tried a lot of things to get out of this industry, I learned computers, electronics, among a lot of other things that I tried and through it all I have discovered that I belong in this industry.
In the last a few years I have started a number of web sites that help people learn about their classic car, and muscle car, they concentrate on teaching the people who want to restore a car how to do it, I written over 200 articles on classic cars, and I'm considered an expert writer on http://ezinearticles.com and http://goarticles.com.
My passion is ...
Classic American Muscle Cars, and the restoration of them.
I know too much about ...
Muscle Cars
My parents always told me ...
Hard work = seccess
My childhood ambition ...
To own my own business
My favorite memory ...
When I got my 1969 Z/28 Camaro
Why I write ...
To help people restore their cars.
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
How to books, CSI, NCIS, CSI NY, Metal
My first job ...
Golden Coral
My best moment ...
When I realized that I could succeed at what I do
My inspiration ...
American cars
You should know the car restoration business inside and out before you try to open a restoration shop. This business is nothing like owning a collision repair shop; in auto restoration there is no way to do an estimate, and is you try, you will lose. There is no way to bid all of the work that you will be doing to restore a classic car. To put this in to perspective, let's just look at one area of a restoration project; sounds good HUH? OK guys and girls it's like this, almost every car restoration project comes with rust. You don't know where, how much, or if the rust is complete body can...
More..John C. Carpenter
Salt Lake City, Utah US
Member since: June 2009
Articles Written: 76