3/16/15

"The Devil’s Golf"

"The Devil’s Golf"

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Whatever you do in life, somebody will have done it before you. And yup, somebody else will do it after you. So placing your own personal mark on anything can be a tricky balance – you’ll find it somewhere between jumping from the roof of a 10-storey building and gently dipping a toe. 

When it comes to cars, everybody loves a project, from a full strip down to a fine tune. But what if you fall in love with somebody else’s work? Does that mean you have to leave it as is? Does it hell! The real trick is making your own mark and improving the DNA…

Older cars always take you back a little bit. Maybe not all the way to the late-’70s, early-’80s when the Mk1 Volkswagen Golf GTI pretty much created a genre. But the design cues that echo across the decades from back then always mentally transport you to another time. It’s what makes working with a classic so much more pleasurable, but risky for me at the same time. You have to get it just right.

Richard ‘Fish’ Fisher from Chicago is a lover of all things automotive. I genuinely couldn’t pin him down to a specific model or marque if I tried, and trust me – I don’t want to. I like people who just like cars, four wheels and an engine. Hell, sometimes they don’t even have to have four wheels… Or an engine for that matter. I’ve been known to melt over a pile of parts. 
http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/08/the-devils-vw-golf/

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