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Hosted by builder and industry insider Elliot Slack of I.B.F.HotRods, this podcast takes you behind the scenes with legends, rising stars, and creative minds shaping the HotRod, Custom Car, and Classic Car Restoration world.
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Mike Wagner | Cornfield Customs | 20 Years of Metal Shaping, Self Taught, Self Made, & No Apologies (opens the original)
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Mike Wagner of Cornfield Customs in Milford, Ohio sat down with me at his fabrication shop for a conversation that went way deeper than I expected. Over twenty years of metal shaping, sheet metal fabrication, custom hot rod builds, and race car fabrication with zero formal training. No trade school. No apprenticeship. Everything he knows about shaping metal he taught himself. This episode starts from the very beginning. From struggling to make a four hundred dollar rent payment to building a one
Kevin and Monica Nichols | Marilyn | The Home Built 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air That Keeps Beating The Pros (opens the original)
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Kevin and Monica Nichols spent eighteen years building a 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air named Marilyn. In this episode of It's All About the Build, we sit down with two people who are about as far from professional car builders as you can get. Their day jobs have nothing to do with hot rods, they don't own a shop, and yet what they built together might be one of the cleanest 1954 Chevy Bel Airs you'll ever see. You'll hear how Kevin bought this car in 1996 for a thousand dollars out of a barn in Fort Wa
Dan & Hilary Fournier | Motor City Metalcraft & Autobodybarbie | The Craft, Family, & No Compromise (opens the original)
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Dan and Hilary Fournier of Motor City Metalcraft sat down with Melanie and I at their shop in Mount Clemens, Michigan for one of the most honest conversations we've ever had on this podcast. We get into what it actually looks like to run a full custom and restoration shop the right way, without the shortcuts most of this industry takes. Dan opens up about growing up under his father, one of the most respected metal fabricators to ever come out of this trade, and what it meant to learn the craft
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