Lemme just keep it real for a minute…I’m not a fan of American Cars, not a hater – I can appreciate a well built old school car, but I’ve just never been a Ford/Chevy/GM guy. When I was growing up and tuning cars, it was always the 5.0 Mustang GT’s vs. the 2nd Gen integgys, CRX’s and built VW’s. This was 9 years before Fast and Furious, before NOS became a running joke and before VTEC kicked in yo. Hella Flush back then meant that your wheels didn’t fit right. 16″ wheels were HUGE and Mugen didn’t make keychains. I chose the import side and left the the muscle cars to the guys that liked Def Leopard.
Flashback to the beginning of the year, Jon introduces me to a friend of his who is looking to build this brand “RWB” in the US. NOTE: RWB is hitting big at SEMA, they’re the talk of the industry right now – and everybody wants to be in bed with them (more opinions on that later). I had only seen RWB stuff in Japan and we started to discussing how to bring the brand to the US. Keep in mind, this was the weekend after the Japan earthquake. They have a particular style that just screams Japan Tuning, with Euro flair – and people are ripe to gobble it up. We send a few emails back and forth, he asks me to go to Japan and we could never really work something out – Jarasa and I even discussed it back then as we knew it was going to splash big. 6 months later, Fatlace/RWB NA is born LOL – which is all good because Mark does solid stuff (although I don’t know what’s up with the Rotaform wheels) but again I’m going off the topic. JON brought RWB to the forefront of my attention…
Jon looking to change up Big Willy – goes full RWB style. Bronze SSR’s with a dish only Chicago could handle – dropped on AIR. YES. AIR – and not some ham and egger kit, we’re talking air-runner baby…I mean, he made the Challenge appeal to a full on JDM/Euro Pontificator. The car will be at SEMA in it’s new guise – here’s a few pics from this past C&C, killin it.
OH..and I heard some people were hating on his car…are you for real? Build a single car of significance (Jon has built a few) and then you can talk. If I HAD to build or rock a Challenger – Jon has built a car that I’d roll. I know, wow – big deal, Albert would rock it – who cares right? Well, read the intro paragraph above again, I’m a pretty particular guy so it does actually mean something if I say I’d roll a car, particularly American and one that I didn’t build. I’m on my 14th personal project car…if I like a car, trust me. It means something. LOL.
Somewhere in the middle of the desert at his house, my boy Jay is laughing at this post because I’m keepin it real and not being PC for once. WHEELPOWA!!!