Worldkustom 2015 January ENGLISH | Page 9

Traditionally, mild colors is a safe bet to make on these types of cars but that safe was not Norm’s ball game. He made a bald choice and went with black and candy and it turned out great.

Remo is self-taught.

- I was an errand boy for my father he says, or naaw, he didn’t say that.

-I was a beer- and tool getter, is the exact quote.

The whole family was car builders and Remo was taught old-school with tin and gas welding. As the frame got decorated with a pretty body and received some nice air bellows Remo went to town on the sides.

Remo Adkins drives with mixed emotions. This ride was supposed to be Norm’s.

Twenty years earlier the surfacing exhaust would only have run along just the one side. But as Norm entered this custom shop it took one day before an identical exhaust ran along the other side as well.

Norm named the car Fireball which is a steady theme from interior to license plate. When it was time for paint they went straight to Remo’s house for some hi-tech computer sketching. Norm liked black and cherry red.

- It’s supposed to stand out, he said.

The computer color in reality turned out PPG black broken into panels of Wine Berry Candy. Although it was a project for a friend the fast pace started