2012年5月29日星期二

Jimenez Bros Custom Cars: Some History and Some Love

One -- A man buys a 1933 Plymouth, intending to restore it someday, but before he gets too far with the rusted-out body or the engine, he leaves this world. The car sits in the side yard,Tiny wisps of men canada goose parka for cheap covered a cocktail dress with sequined flowers. or in the garage, or in the barn,Large white sequins and golden beads Christian Louboutin Sale covered the front of a dress. or the driveway.Men's wholesale canada goose outlet is the the necessary coat for any handsome man in both spring ang autumn . Sometimes another old car lover passes by and sees it -- and buys it for himself. Sometimes a widow sells the unrestored car on eBay or in a classified ad. But this time, the man's wife takes the Plymouth to the Jimenez Bros. It will become a remembrance, a memoriam of chassis and chrome.

I went looking last week for a 1958 Apache truck, my favorite vehicle, the one I dream of buying, and everywhere I asked,This is a 100% canada goose jackets,we don't have anything that's 100 percent. at salvage yards and car shows, people mentioned the Jimenez Bros. My ex-husband said if anyone had an Apache, it would be them. As Doug and I rounded a curve near the overpass of the 215 Freeway in north Riverside, where anonymous cars flew past above us, a turquoise-hooded 1953 Chevy 3100 pickup was being backed into a driveway on a trailer.

Cain and Jobe Jimenez and their shop have been featured on the television show "Chop, Cut, Rebuild," for a 1941 Mercury on which they did the paint and bodywork and a 1969 Dodge Charger.

Right now, Moose Hutchinson, wearing a welder's helmet, his long goatee held in sections by elastic bands, slides underneath the Plymouth and keeps working on the metal and wood floor he has painstakingly fabricated because the original couldn't be salvaged.

The Jimenez Bros and their craftsmen never do anything halfway. The beginnings of the Plymouth sit outside on a trailer, next to a 1949 Ford Panel, waiting for rescue. It will take six months, at least, hours and hours of engine work and chrome,The other problem is that a kayak makes ss uniform a sound like a drum. of door panels with six and seven and nine coats of paint and then sanding and then more paint, to make the Plymouth into this dream of what someone wanted.
Two -- A man stands in front of his 1939 Chevy, the one he will restore, in Riverside's Casa Blanca neighborhood. It is 1951. He's Josue "Cochi" Jimenez, Cain and Jobe's uncle. Their father, Jose "Facho" Jimenez, is 66 now. Along with another uncle, Joe "Crook" Ortega, these men were original members of Los Vagabundos, a car club in Riverside's Casa Blanca neighborhood. Cain and Jobe tell me how much they admired their father and uncles. "Los Vagabundos -- we wore their jackets around the yard when we were kids. We wanted to be like them."

One of the first cars Cain worked on, when he was just out of high school and trying to get a shop together, was a 1963 Cadillac. (How does he know the makes, models and years of all the cars? By the grilles and fins, taillights and windows. The brothers began in an 800-square-foot building, working all night painting custom flames on vehicles, trying for something bigger. Then they moved to another workplace.

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