CLASSIC WRECKS

Text from Etsy by Alex Rappoport:

"John Findra took the top down on his 2007 black Corvette at my request. We were starting our day with a trip across Hardeeville, South Carolina, to visit an auto body shop that inspires his artwork, 1:24 models of abandoned junker cars. On the drive, John told me that his love affair with automobiles goes back to childhood memories of the 1950s. It was the era of tailfins, chrome and custom color combinations, marketed in print and TV to the first car culture generation. John recalls cutting pictures of cars out of magazines and playing with them on the floor of his family’s New Jersey home. He keeps his love of the machines from those days alive by building them in replica. By his account, he has assembled thousands of models in his lifetime since completing his first at age seven. These days, much of his business comes from customers seeking replicas of their favorite old cars."

via: http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/classic-wrecks-the-rusted-car-as-art/

John Findra es un tipo que siente una gran pasion por los automobiles desde su infancia, sus recuerdos de los años 50 son de la epoca donde los coches tenian esas "colas" en su zaga, lucian cromados y combinaciones de colores personalizados, la epoca donde vivio y crecio la primera generacion marcada por la cultura del coche.
John recuerda recortar  las fotos de coches de revistas y jugar con ellos en el suelo de la casa familiar en New Jersey. Él mantiene vivo su amor por las máquinas de aquella epoca mediante la construccion de replicas a escala. Ha montado miles de modelos en su vida desde que empezo a los siete años.
Hoy en día, gran parte de su negocio proviene de clientes que buscan réplicas de su coche clasico favorito.