FBBO member "Bruzilla" has a idea?

I dream of one day opening a shop for hot rods. The problem is it's a huge investment with little profit. Most guys that own a hot rod shop had money to begin with.

Your talking about ALOT of money for start up and with such a speciized client base you will struggle for at least the first few years.

I have a friend that I grew up with that is the ultimate success story for this though. He was always into street rods like his dad so when he turned 16 he got an old vw bettle since it was the closest thing to a street rod he could afford. He souped it up and made it look real good. Then he had guys walk up to him at shows asking for his help. He would have guys bring over cars here and there but nothing serious. Then he moved to denver. Rented out a small shop with a couple of bays and learned how to work on new volkswagens and Audis. He started to get a reputation as the go to guy for those cars. After he saved up enough he moved into his current shop which has 4 lifts, a chassis dyno for awd cars, a engine dyno and a room for vinyl wraps. He has built a VW Golf for the guitarist of Acdc and built Audis for the HRE wheel booth at sema. He also holds land speed records in his VW ar 224 mph. He is proof that it is possible but very difficult.

http://www.bwperformance.com