JF Kustoms

Made In Canada: Speed-Tech Performance

It has been great to get back in the shop and get back to what I love most… taking the image I have in my head and moulding it into something tangible.  Last year I took one of Lazze’s metal shaping courses and brought home one side of a car on the airplane.  This year I’m taking those skills and applying them everywhere I can, this week that means the Riviera.  Even though at first sight this project won’t appear to be as much of a Custom as my last two shop builds, it is a Street Machine after all, there will be very little left untouched.  (If any!)  I have the 71 back window grafted in, the body is at a length that I’m happy with, the wheel well positions have been moved, the firewall is roughed in and last week we started the fab of the roll cage.  Today I was working on the tubs.  It isn’t as easy as you’d think to stuff 24’s back there.  In all of this I have come across some “Made in Canada” components that made me think.  We spend half our time in the States travelling to shows, we have met some of the best people in this industry ‘across the line’, we have even contemplated leaving the ‘Great White North’ for California or Arizona on a couple occasions, but the fact remains that I Am Canadian.  There may be less of us, both builders and enthusiasts, than there are of our counterparts to the south but that doesn’t make us any less talented or any less passionate about this Industry.  The bottom line is that if there were no borders, we would still be the same guys (& gals) in the same garages, bench racing and telling exaggerated truths about “this one time…”,  busting our knuckles to make the next show.                        JF

P.S.  We’ve got the past episodes for JFKustomsTV up on YouTube now too.  Here’s the link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jfkustomstv