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ne of the things I hear the
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      most on my Facebook
                                                                                                                                                                                                O page is ‘I can’t afford one
                                                                                                                                                                                                of those cars’ or ‘I dont have room
                                                                                                                                                                                                for something like that’. One of
                                                                                                                                                                                                the things I love about what I do is
                                                                                                                                                                                                showcasing some of the different
                                                                                                                                                                                                things that you wouldn’t normally
                                                                                                                                                                                                see or even think of. Sometimes it’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                more about using what you have to
                                                                                                                                                                                                fit your needs than it is having the
                                                                                                                                                                                                right thing... which isn’t that one of
                                                                                                                                                                                                the definitions of a rat rod?
                                                                                                                                                                                                   The Radio Flyer was mine.
                                                                                                                                                                                                Something that was tossed
                                                                                                                                                                                                together then sadly tossed
                                                                                                                                                                                                altogether back when I first started
                                                                                                                                                                                                doing this stuff. It was fun and my
                                                                                                                                                                                                son loved it but after the second
                                                                                                                                                                                                time it was run over there just
                                                                                                                                                                                                wasn’t any fixing it.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   The strollers belong to CJ Gore.
                                                                                                                                                                                                No stranger to these pages. The
                                                                                                                                                                                                man has talent, and grandkids, so
                                                                                                                                                                                                awesome stuff like this gets built to
                                                                                                                                                                                                haul the little ones around.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   The Hotwheels are creations
                                                                                                                                                                                                made by a gentleman named Tony
                                                                                                                                                                                                Szuta. He messaged me back in
                                                                                                                                                                                                October with one of them and I was
                                                                                                                                                                                                simply hooked with what he was
                                                                                                                                                                                                  doing with something that I have
                                                                                                                                                                                                    played with for 30 years. His
                                                                                                                                                                                                     website is brewcitycustoms.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     com and he has these for sale
                                                                                                                                                                                                     as well as directions on how to
                                                                                                                                                                                                   build your own.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   The fun thing about this is -
                                                                                                                                                                                PHOTOGRAPHS RADIO    rust is everywhere. Seeing it in a
                                                                                                                                                                                FLYER- JIM METZGER
                                                                                                                                                                          STROLLERS- OWNER CJ GORE,   different light just makes it more
                                                                                                                                                                         PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID JUDD
                                                                                                                                                                         (HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/  enjoyable for everyone.
                                                                                                                                                                              JUDDSCUSTOMPHOTOS)
                                                                                                                                                                             HOTWHEELS- TONY SZUTA
                                                                                                                                                                             (BREWCITYCUSTOMS.COM)
                                                                                                                                                                     METAL PLATE THINGY-PLASMA-TRACKS.  Till next time everyone
                                                                                                                                                                     COM (SOON TO BE FOR SALE THROUGH
                                                                                                                                                                    RUSTISNOTACRIME.COM! LIKE THE PAGE!           — Jim Metzger
                                                                                                                                                                            SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT!)

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