The ultimate Mod!

[Baldwin]

Points taken. What's Foose? Gotta admit though, if I was a multi-millionaire, I'd go through with the mod. THey know I'm a mechanical engineer with a PE (Professional Engineering) license so we talked a long time about the things they'd have to do to give it more support and still be a performance vehicle. THey estimated 800 hrs on just the top removal, structural support, design...etc. The other stuff was minimal. Oh wells, was fun dreaming for the moment.

[JoFotoz]

What's Foose?

Foose is the Gold Standard...the MAN.

Try a Foose Google search...it'll blow yer mind!


jo

[VCrossfan]

Points taken. What's Foose?.

Wants to drop 80k on an automotive upgrade and hasn't heard of Chip Foose??

[Baldwin]

Yeah, I wasn't thinkin' Chip Foose when Coastie just said "foose" lower case. Was gonna go to Huntington Beach to talk to him too to see what he thought. Tryin' to work the marketing thing too and get a write off. For those that don't know, I'm also a hip hop artist. myspace.com/onlywon so tryin' to see if the record label could chip in and use this in a music video and as a business expense. Being an engineer by day and the "Lyrical Engineer" by night, I do have some logic to my madness. Had to go to GAS first cuz Xzibit's my boi. I'm just not big time...yet. Need the mad VXer's behind me.

[VCrossfan]

Nice myspace page, and stepping out of your Proton at the beginning of the Glory Video and adding it in/out through out the video...Nice Touch..

[WormGod]

If you went that Pimp My Rice route, I can save you the money....

$10 for 5 gallons of fuel

$.75 for a lighter

$1 for a local paper

Get where this is going yet?

I have done custom rooftops, targas, and ttops back in the day and NO top has ever exceeded $8k, that I can recall. Of course, back then you were covering our $90hr labor, not that LA Thug Shop ("what is ASE?") $600hr labor. I am sure that the planning, design, and modification work will take a hell of a lot longer than anything I ever worked with, but $100k sounds outrageous. Now let's say you decided to go for it anyways.... think reputable. Look at shop credentials. Some of the shops you see on tv are circus shows. I guarantee 10% of the employees are actually trained and certified. Sometimes, those OJT guys may be good, but I need guarantee behind that work. You spend that money, you need to aim higher at someone like Foose. If a shop has too many shiny things in the windows and 20 lowriding, multicolored MODERN cars in the lot, run for your life. :P

Beinga hip hop guy like you say you are though, and if it's just that rep you are trying to uphold, its your call. I would take reputation of a shop over "but these guys do all the rappers cars!" any day.

[Chopper]

Having met a "pimp my ride" ride...up close and personal, and experienced the quality of their work on a professional level....just get a sawzall and take it to BAM....same end result.

[Riff Raff]

As Nancy Reagan used to exclaim "JUST SAY NO!!!"