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You
know how they say you can't tell a book by its cover?
Well, this is the exception.
The
cover of Hot Rod Garages is a photograph of
a garage door, with the 16 windows cut out - somebody
at the printers went to a lot of work on this cover
- so you can actually see what's happening inside
the garage.
The
cover pretty much tells you what this book is about
as veteran photographer Peter Vincent takes us inside
the garages of a dozen and a half of the top hot
rod builders. Some of them, such as Steve Moal and
Roy Brizio, are very well known, others have reputations
yet to catch up with the quality of their work. That,
however, will change as people go through Vincent's
and enjoy the luscious photography and read the very
conversationally present tales of this talented group
of mechanical artisans.
In
addition to a look into the garages, the book includes
step-by-step details of the creation of George Poteet's
1934 three-window coupe by the Rolling Bones (builders
Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell).
One
thing that struck me while turning pages in this
book was that some, well, how do we put this…
some pretty grubby-looking garages turn out some
extraordinarily fine vehicles. Of course, so do some
very clean and modern edifices, though the garages
we love are those that have some patina on the outside
and walls inside covered with years of spare parts
and other treasures accumulated through time.
This
book is a car guy's delight. I'm eager for Vincent
to do a sequel. The More Hot Rod Garages the
better!
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