91 - Looking at rad rat rods.
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Some dwarfs took over four vacant units a few
doors up from mine, and they've done something
really cool with them. They converted them into
this custom car shop, and I get such a kick out of
that.
They knocked out some walls between the units and
also the outer walls in the fronts, to make this
set of stacked two-level bays. And built a sort
of elevator hoist out in front to lift cars up and
down. And I guess there's living quarters up above
on the third floors.
They got the works going on in there, and you can
watch it all. Sheet metal fabrication, welding,
painting, assembly, all of it. All day long
there's parts and chassis and what not coming in,
and finished jobs going out. Some of it is pretty
wild and wacky, too. It's not just regular
restorations and low-riders and stuff. They'll cut
up some boring old hatchback into something that
looks like a flying saucer, or a double-decker
pickup truck. Not like all those old gear-head
dudes I used to know, who only liked a car if it
was stock, sleek, fast and old. "Respectful" to
the good ol' days. Dwarfs don't give a crap about
some old dead homo-sap sensibility about what's
cool and good. They're making up their own
cool. No nostalgia bogging it all down.
I don't know where they're getting all these parts
from, or who's buying all these finished cars. But
there's centaurs and Braxon gangster blockheads
coming and going all the time, so probably
something's at least a little crooked. Maybe I
don't want to know. Maybe I just want to hang
around and look at all the rad rat rods.
