Say what you want about Clapton, but the man has some bitchin' hot rods
Other noteworthy guitarist hot rod & custom collections: Billy Gibbons (I omitted the ZZ Top Eliminator because everybody knows that one)
/1
Jeff Beck
/2
James Hetfield
/3
Jimmy Vaughan
/4
One last one: Billy G, Beck, and Jimmie Vaughan parallel parking
builder credits:
Clapton: all by Roy Brizio
Billy G: 1 Boyd Coddington 2 Rudy Rodriguez 3 Pete Chapouris & Jake Jacobs 4 SoCal/ Pete Chapouris
Beck: many builders, including himself; #4 by Roy Brizio
Hetfield: 1 Rick Dore 2 Josh Mills 3 Scott Mugford 4 Rick Dore
Last but not least, all of Jimmie Vaughan's cars were built by the late, great Iowa-born Austin area customizer Gary Howard.
Car #2 in the Clapton collection is a 49 Ford Club Coupe, chopped/customized by Roy Brizio. Reminds me that Blondie guitarist @chrissteinplays has one, but fairly stock.
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Don't know if that's good career advice, but I think we can all agree that whatever passes as opinion writing (left or right) is now so interchangeably conformist and boilerplate it might as well have been churned out by 3 algorithms freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/if-you-want-…
with a handful of exceptions, I can barely name any journo who is saying anything remotely interesting, or memorable, or who couldn't be replaced by 100 twitter randos without anybody noticing
I kinda have a 4-part writer test:
1. do they write about interesting topics nobody else is covering?
2. do they write in a unique, entertaining, or surprising style?
3. do they seem to know what they're talking about?
Hangin' out, down the street
The same old thing we did last week
Not a thing to do, but talk to you #DavesCarIDService
*Photo lifted from Rick McCloskey's amazing "Van Nuys Blvd 1972," a must-have book of California car cruising culture.
**Lyrics lifted from "In The Street" (written by Alex Chilton) from the Big Star album "#1 Record," a must-have for any music collection.
***and the 'Moonlight Cocktail' car that's attracting all the parking lot attention is a 1958 Chevy Impala 2 door hardtop with Cragar S/S mags and some primer on the door indicating a recent boo-boo.
*Ed "Big Daddy" Roth was the king of adolescent t-shirt hot rod monsters in the 60s (and the greatest artist of the 20th Century IMO), but he had competitors. Stanley Mouse for one, and Bill Campbell who designed the "Weird-Ohs" plastic model line for Hawk.
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