Find A Family In A Custom Car Club

Posted by Jo in Cars,Uncategorized (October 27, 2007 at 9:52 am)

It is obvious that cars and fear of heights have nothing In common, so why the name Acrophobias Custom Car Club? For the sake of uniqueness. Acrophobias Custom Car Club is initially an exclusive big truck club, though there are already cars in the club. They have more than 20 chapters across America and are still opening on some states, while Japan and Australia have existing chapters already. Acrophobias Custom Car Club members everywhere have one thing in common: love for customizing their vehicles with a family attitude. Though this is not the only thing they do if they are together; they have party, car show and they keep a store where members can buy club’s memorabilia. This activities enable them to bond with each other enjoying the company of others and their vehicles.

Getting into this club is never easy; they have vehicle and member’s qualification for anyone who wish to join, which they say is for the purpose of having that quality vehicle and people. For the vehicle, your wheels should be 17 inches or bigger, primer is a no, no, only flat paints are allowed. Vehicle should be clean in the interior and exterior at all times especially during car shows and meetings. A member should always attend scheduled meeting, so strong commitment to the club should be given. Despite the vehicle qualification, they look more for the personality and attitude of the prospect member. What really binds the members other than their vehicles is their strong relationship with each other and their love for the club, which members consider it as one of their home. With their strict policy on their vehicles and members, it is no wonder they often won on car shows they were even chosen 2006 Club of the Year by Mini Truckin.  All of these accomplished within 9 years after their founding on 1998.

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Custom Floor Mat For Your Classic Car

Posted by Jo in Classic Cars,Concept Cars,tips ( at 7:17 am)

For a classic car enthusiast, every thing is not perfect if some parts of his car not authentic classic. A real classic car enthusiast is a real stickler for details and has an eye for classic car parts. Every thing in a classic car should be classic right down to its car floor mats. Classic car’s original floor mat is really an eye sore once it fade and worn out. When this happen to a classic car, it is such an embarrassing to the car owner. So the next step for completely having that classic look in your classic car interior is to restore and replace your floor mats.
Since a nice or even new classic car floor mats are and hard to find, they are just custom made to fit to your car and the car owner’s taste. Basic information regarding the classic car is needed to make a replacement for a classic car. The exact year, make and model of the classic car will be the basis to create the classic car floor mats. Despite being custom made, yet it will have the original colors and materials to replace your classic car floor mats. Your classic car will really have that look of classic in exterior and interior.

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Selling Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,tips ( at 5:09 am)

 There is a big market for custom car and it can sell fast if it has the right packaging. There is just a little difference between those expensive must – have cars and a modified one. That is why many custom cars are still buyable despite all it’s been through. Many autos are modified to appear expensive to be able to be sold at high price. This is a great opportunity for any car enthusiast to have their car dream at a low price. The most important thing is that your prospective custom car has a great interior and exterior parts; those are what car buyer look for.

Custom cars for sale can be seen on classified ads, swap meets, live auction and online auction. Wherever you decide to buy a custom car, you should test-drive it before making any payments just to be sure that the car you are buying has good engines even if it has good looks. Whatever make of custom car you choose to buy, the money you bought is worth spending because a good custom car can serve you a long way.

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Make Your Custom Car The Fastest

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars,tips (October 26, 2007 at 5:36 am)

            Owning one of the fastest streetcars is such a great fulfillment for a car enthusiast. When a car is noted to be fastest streetcar it does not only imply on the cars speed but its look and style come along with the tag. Fast streetcars are really a wow. Every year, car manufacturers are always looking for ways to create fast streetcars. Even a car enthusiast thinks of all the possibility of customizing his car to make it the fastest.

Custom car seems difficult to imagine as one of the fastest streetcars since it used to be old car just modified. But in the early 40’s and 50’s young people, modified their car for this very reason of making their car run fast and changing its look to somewhat personalize. Customizing a car to a fast streetcar is replacing or altering your engine or transmission to improve its speed performance, which is based on the car acceleration and top speed.  At this time, every thing is possible with your car, a car owner can definitely modify whatever car make or model he owns to make it the fastest streetcars. Fast cars manufacturers provide parts and materials needed for this to be possible with your custom car. A car owner may have that most beautiful car, but to have a most beautiful car and the fastest, well, what could possibly a car enthusiast ask more?

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Putting A Custom Car Flag

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars,Used Cars (October 25, 2007 at 12:30 pm)

            A custom car flag is very effective in informing people; either your car flag is for advertising, for others to notice you, it shows your support to your team, represents where you came from or just simply expressing yourself and the car who brings it. It can as well add to the attraction to your car. Car flag can be use on national or sporting event. It is placed in any window of the vehicle; it easily clips on the window and can be remove without damaging the window.

            Custom car flag can have various designs and shape; can be a company logo or be personalized. The usual size of a car flag is 12” x 14”, though other sizes are available.  The best material to use is 100% polyester; this is very durable in any kind of weather. But it is important top inform the flag maker as to how and where the car flag will be use to be able to use the right materials and design. The idea of putting a custom car flag is to get that attention, for this to happen, your custom car flag should have great design and color. These two are the basis for pricing a car flag, the more color and design the more effort and material is needed. But remember, a custom car flag is not for fast cars.

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New Look For Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars ( at 10:49 am)

Custom car paint job do a lot of things for your custom car; personalize it the way you want it to be; it enhances the car and will definitely make your car stand out anywhere it go. Custom paint designs varies from flames, ghost flames, perls, candy apple and chameleon which can done on a single color or two. There are many reasons why a custom car owner would go for a paint job, other than giving it the best look, there may be some small chips of paint that have been removed over the course of time though doing this is applicable for small chips and not on long scratches or maybe just a complete change of look.

Custom car paint job can be done by a professional or choose to do it by yourself. If you do it by yourself, you will be able to save lots of money that hiring a professional. But of course you have to have that knowledge and skill to be able to give that great look you are dreaming of. You can watch a car painter in an auto shop and learned from it. Though it may sound easy it is rather complicated, so be sure to be really prepared or else you will just mess up your car.

If you choose to hire a professional custom car painter, well of course, you need to consider your budget. Informing the car painter of how long you want to last the paint that means really costly. Are you doing a complete change look or your custom car just need painting on the areas that is seen? Is it for a car show? A lot of things have to be considered whether you hire a professional or do it yourself. Yet, one thing is for sure, when your car got its new paint, all your sweat was worth it.  

Import Paint

Bee Car

Bee Car Paint

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Get That Chop Top Look

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars ( at 6:20 am)

“Chop Top” technique is one of the most popular way to customize a car. Lots of 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s autos are custom car “Chop Top”. And even up to this time, there are still chop top custom car you can see on the road. Despite being lessened, it is still very popular being seen on different car shows plus it is becoming a concept of some car manufacturer. Customizing your car to a Chop Top needs lots of hard work, great dedication or else you and you car will definitely screw up, wasted effort. It is considered as the greatest custom surgery. It is done through lowering the roof of a certain car, which makes it different and gives a unique look from other car.
These past years, chopped top cars are very few other than those seen on car shows and the new models that are already chop top. It is now difficult to chop top those new make and model of car because some of the car angles are big such as the windshield, the window curving. Cars with these styles are not suited for chop top customizing.

Chop Top

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Designing Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars (October 24, 2007 at 10:17 am)

To a custom car enthusiast, their custom car is more than transportation. It symbolizes his whole personality; his expression of taste, his dreams, and his car is he. Every part of the car is optional, it means that you can keep it or replace it with whatever design you want. There are custom car enthusiasts who are much after the performance of the car than its appearance while some goes after the looks.

Designing a custom car is simple, replacing or adding some parts in the car, change the appearance with a new paint or putting on stickers. Doing this can be done in two ways: with professionals or do it yourself. If you choose to hire a professional for this job be sure to get the right person and the most important thing is as the owner of the custom car you should be able to clearly discuss what design you really want though his ideas can be helpful as well. If you choose to do it by yourself, there are bunch of ideas, which you can get. There is no limit to the design you want for your custom car and available supplies are just about anywhere it all just depends on your budget.

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Keeping Memories Of Your Custom Car Alive

Posted by Jo in Cars (October 23, 2007 at 11:18 am)

There are thousands of make and models of a custom car, and each one has a story to tell. Other than collecting custom car, a custom car enthusiast may wish to make a custom car archive. Custom car archives are the accumulated records over time of a car manufacturer, custom car website and even an individual custom car enthusiast. A lot of topics regarding custom cars can be included in the archive, though it does not mean that only those in text form can be keep in an archive. Every day, everywhere there is always a lot you can include in your custom car archive. There are custom car enthusiast who make custom car photo archive It may contain different kind of records such as receipts related to custom car, ticket to a custom car show, topic in the newspaper or from a website every thing regarding custom car.

Anyone can make an archive for personal use, to keep memorabilia of his custom car. Who knows, maybe someday your custom car archive will be valuable and will be part of the history of custom car. This could look like a diary for your custom car. There are always a lot of stories to tell and keep regarding custom car where others can research, learn and share. It is always nice to keep the memories alive of those 40’s and 50’s cars. What a fulfillment for any custom car enthusiast to

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Show Off Your Big Rims

Posted by Jo in Concept Cars ( at 9:40 am)

            Custom car wheels and it rims gives identity to the car. It every car owner’s dream to be recognize and be uniquely identify due to the extremely attractive appearance of the car. Surely a car owner will be very satisfied and proud to have a unique car wheel.  Choosing the rim size will be based on the vehicle size and the car owner’s personal style. Rim may seem unimportant part of the car but it can totally changed and give that look to your car that every car owner dream of.

Big rims are the most wanted among car wheels today. Big rims sizes vary but the usual size is 20 – inch and the bigger is the 28 – inch. The bigger rim the better. A 28 – inch rim is much fitted to a Hummer though it also looks well in SUV. Big rims comes in different colors, Custom cars with big rims are definitely the hottest on the road. Other than wanting to be notice, car owner who wants big rims for their custom car should remember as well the performance of their car once it is replaced with big rims. So the rims should perfectly fit the vehicle, this is important especially in installing and for your wheels to function properly because big rims are heavy and so it will really affect the performance of the car. If you decide to have big rims, make sure that it matches with the other parts and designs of your custom car, other wise your custom car would just be a laughing stock.

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