Personalization

Since getting into the modification scene around 10 years ago, it was about big money, big power and personalization.

In recent years I've seen less and less personalization and more about bragging rights.

Being someone who spent the wrong side of £20,000 on my car, for me it was all about what I wanted and what I liked. I never cared for what anyone else said about my car because I frankly didn't care. Friends and family and the people that played their part in my car all had an opinion. "You should do it this way", "this would look better" were comments I heard regularly. But the thing I did was what I would see when stepping back and thinking how to do every single aspect of the car. Don't get me wrong, when doing something I had no understanding about (the electrics for example,) I did listen, but I always made the final decision.

This brings me to my point.

Does anyone build a car for themselves these days or is it all about the bragging rights and what everyone else will think???

I hope it isn't the latter. I understand wanting to have the best, fastest, the notoriety in the car world. I do. It could be just an ego thing.

The reason for this is that to me, personalizing YOUR car should be all about that. YOU. At the end of the day you're the one who has to open the garage, sit inside turn the key and go. It should be about your personality. People should see that car and see you in it.

That's exactly how I did it.

So what happens to the current car builders, and the future car modifiers?

Are they doing it for themselves, for popularity & bragging rights, or worse, not at all due to the recession?

Lets just hope it's not the last one, and more the first one...