91 - Looking at rad rat rods.

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Some dwarfs took over four vacant units a few doors up from mine, and they've done something really cool with them. They converted them into this custom car shop, and I get such a kick out of that.

They knocked out some walls between the units and the also the walls in the fronts, to make this set of stacked two-level bays. And built a sort of elevator hoist out in front to lift cars up and down. And I guess there's living quarters up above on the third floors.

They got the works going on in there, and you can watch it all. Sheet metal fabrication, welding, painting, assembly, all of it. All day long there's parts and chassis and what not coming in, and finished jobs going out. Some of it is pretty wild and wacky, too. It's not just regular restorations and low-riders and stuff. They'll cut up some boring old hatchback into something that looks like a flying saucer, or a double-decker pickup truck. Not like all those old gear-head dudes I used to know, who only liked a car if it was stock, sleek, fast and old. "Respectful" to the good ol' days. Dwarfs don't give a crap about some old dead homo-sap sensibility about what's cool and good. They're making up their own cool. No nostalgia bogging it all down.

I don't know where they're getting all these parts from, or who's buying all these finished cars. But there's centaurs and Braxon blockheads coming and going all the time, so probably something's at least a little crooked. Maybe I don't want to know. Maybe I just want to hang around and look at all the rad rat rods.

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