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 Car CustomizationKyle OliverSenior SeminarMs.Prather1/24/2017 Customizing cars has been around for a very long time. Customized cars are cars that have been changed from their original stock version (altered after they come out of the factory). Cars show the world who you are- they reflect the owner’s personality and style. Rednecks have big, lifted trucks. City slickers drive lowered street cars. Rich, elderly people focus more on the interior condition of their cars. There are all sorts of ways to customize a car. Car customization is a fun and interesting, but is more complicated than most people think because it requires special training and covers many different types of customization, including paint jobs. Customized cars have been around since pre world war two. They really started to show up in hollywood in 1952 The first ways that people started customizing cars were putting large engines in their cars The nicknames for different types of customized cars are Hopped up, Resto Mods, Street Machines, Street Rod, Muscle Car, Tweeners and Modern cars. Hopped up cars are cars in which the engine has been removed and replaced with a bigger engine. Resto Mods amateur hot rods from the 1930’s The different decades each had different kinds of customized car the rat rods were 1930’s. The street rods were the 1940’s. The tweeners were the 1950’s builds and the 1960’s.The first hot rods were painted like the model A from which they had been built, and only slowly began to add more colors, and soon orange and yellow flamed hoods or candy finishes in different colors.With the change in car design to cover the wheels in fenders and to extend the hood to the full width of the car, the former practices were no longer possible. In addition, there was a lot car advertising and subsequent public interest in the new models in the 1950s. And custom cars came into existence, swapping headlamp rings, grilles, bumpers, chrome side strips, and tail lights, as well as frenching and tunnelling head and taillights. The bodies of the cars were changed by cutting through the sheet metal, removing bits to make the car lower, welding it back together, and adding a lot of lead to make the resulting form smooth. By this means, chopping made the roof lower sectioning made the body thinner from top to bottom. Channeling was cutting notches in the floorpan where the body touches the frame to lower the whole body. Fins were often added from other cars, or made up from sheet steel. In the custom car culture, someone who changed the appearance without also substantially improving the performance was looked down upon.To customize cars as a career, a person can get both education in school and training in the field. High school diploma or equivalent/post secondary training. To Become skilled at customizing cars you will need a high-school diploma and a lot of training and practice. On-the-job training /voluntary certification You will be trained on the job you will have to learn by doing it Must be knowledgeable about the various tools, equipment You will need to learn how to use the equipment that you will use to work on your car. Should take courses in electronics, hands-on automotive repair, computers, math, and English. You will need to take classes on electronics, Hands-on automotive repair, computers, math, and english to become very skilled at customizing or repairing cars, Paint is very important. Once bodywork was done, the cars were painted unusual colors. Transparent but wildly colored candy-apple paint, applied atop a metallic undercoat, and metalflake paint, with aluminum glitter within candy-apple paint, appeared in the 1960s. These took many coats to produce a good effect which in hot climates had a tendency to flake off. This process and style of paint job was invented by Joe Bailon, a customizer from Northern California.Customizers also continued the habit of adding decorative paint after the main coat was finished, of flames extending rearward from the front wheels, scallops, and hand-painted pinstripes of a contrasting color. The base color, most often a single coat, would be expected to be of a simpler paint. Flame jobs later spread to the hood, encompassing the entire front end, and have progressed from traditional reds and yellows to blues and greens and body-color "ghost" flames. One particular style of flames, called "crab claw flames", which is still prevalent today, is attributed to Dean JeffriesPainting has become such a part of the custom car scene that now in many custom car competitions, awards for custom paint are as highly sought after as awards for the cars themselves.Kit Cars or component cars. These kits require less technical knowledge from the builder. The definition of a kit car usually indicates that a manufacturer constructs multiple kits of the same vehicle, each of which it then sells to a third party to build. A kit car should not be confused with a hand built car or special car, which is typically built from scratch by an individual. Kit cars have been around since 1896 but not until the 1950’s did the idea take off. The production of cars increased greatly with rust proofing. An industry grew making new bodies and parts for cars and taking these components from these cars and convert them into new cars mainly into sports cars. Fiber reinforced plastic was coming into general use and made limited scale production automobile body components.Kit cars were sometimes normal production vehicles. During the 1970s many kits had bodies like sports cars that were designed to bolt directly to VW Beetle chassis. This was popular as the old body could be easily separated from the chassis leaving all mechanical components attached to the chassis and a GRP-body from the kit supplier shop fitted. This made the Beetle one of the most popular "donor" vehicles of all time. Examples of this conversion include the Bradley GT, Sterling, and Sebring which were made by the thousands and many are still around today. Volkswagen based dune buggies also appeared in large numbers in the 1960s and 1970s based usually on a shortened floorpan.Current kit cars are frequently replicas of well-known and often expensive classics and are designed so that anyone with a measure of technical skill can build them at home to a standard where they can be driven on the public roads. These replicas are in general appearance like the original, but their bodies are often made of fiberglass mats soaked in polyester resin instead of the original sheet metal. The AC Cobra and the Lotus 7 are particularly popular examples, the right to manufacture the Lotus 7 now being owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder Colin Chapman in 1973. Replica kit cars enable enthusiasts to possess a vehicle of a type that because of rarity they may not be able to afford, and at the same time take advantage of modern technology. The Sterling Nova Kit originally produced in the UK was the most popular VW based Kits being produced Everywhere and licensed under several different names with an estimated 10000 sold.Many people react skeptically when they first hear about kit cars as it appears to them to be technically impossible to assemble a car at home and license it for public roads. They may also be worried that such a car would not pass the quality control that is required in most countries. For example, to get permission to use a kit car in Germany, every such vehicle with a speed over 6 km/h without a general operating license or an EC type permission, as per the § 21 of Road traffic licensing regulations, a technical inspection by a recognized expert of a Technical Inspection Authority. In the United Kingdom it is necessary to meet the requirements of the IVA (Individual vehicle approval) regulations. In the United States SEMA has gone state by state to set up legal ways for states to register kit cars and speciality vehicles for inspection and plates.A survey of nearly 600 kit car owners in the US, the UK and Germany, carried out by Dr. Ingo Stüben, showed that typically 100–1,500 hours are required to build a kit car, depending upon the model and the completeness of the kit. However, as the complexity of the kits offered continues to increase, build times have increased as well. My Uncle built a kit car he worked on it for several years and took it to car shows. Car shows are where a bunch of car lovers meet and show off what they have built and customized my uncle went to the car shows in Carlisle Pennsylvania. My father and I went to car shows in Pigeon Forge Tennessee where they lined the highway with custom cars. Customizing cars has been around for a very long time. Customized cars are cars that have been changed from their original stock version (altered after they come out of the factory). Cars show the world who you are- they reflect the owner’s personality and style. Rednecks have big, lifted trucks as their customising. City slickers drive lowered street cars. Rich, elderly people focus more on the interior condition of their cars. There are all sorts of ways to customize a car. Car customization is fun and interesting, but is more complicated than most people think because it requires special training and covers many different types of customization, including paint jobs. ................
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