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Just Good Ol’ Car Talk.

I have been into cars my whole life. Really into cars, here is an example. When I turned 16, I would often blow off the girlfriends, to tool away on what ever car I owned at the time. In fact……. Every time I bought a new car, I lost the girlfriend that I was going out with at the time. Why? You might ask yourself….. Didn’t you like getting laid? Of course I did, I was a pubescent teen. But it never failed, buy a new car, spend too many hours tooling away, and upgrading, and doing body work, and BAM….out of no where another girlfriend gone.

When I buy a car I see it different then most people. I do not buy a car for what it is…… I buy a car for what it can be, and that is the beauty of the automobile to me. I sit here to this day dreaming of my next project, the next car that I can customize to make it fit me just right. (that car just happens to be a 2002 BMW Z3 Coupe AKA, the clown shoe)

That is why SEMA excites so many people. We get to see other people’s vision of the perfect car. Yes, there is plenty of over the top, horribly designed shit. But there is the other side. The great vehicles that the OEM’s tastefully trick out themselves.

I get more excited about many of the wide-bodied production cars then I do concepts. Why? Well because at least they are real. They are real street cars that can be bought and transformed into super cars. It is as simple as that.

Here is a Salute to DCX, and their beautiful 1 off Custom Production Vehicles. I could not have done it much better myself. These are truly cars that car guys want. The way designers wanted to see them in production, but for cost reasons could not.

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Scott Digital

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