5 Questions with Troy Trepanier
The Detroit Free Press caught up with builder extrordinaire, Troy Trepanier of Rad Rides at last week’s Woodward Dream Cruise where he served as Grand Marshall. Troy took the time to answer these 5 questions:
Troy Trepanier
QUESTION: Are you a Dream Cruise fan?
ANSWER: I love it. I’ve been coming for about the last six years.
Q: Most of the car business stinks. How’re you doing?
A: Car customizing just keeps growing. It’s all the baby boomers wanting to get the car they had in high school, or wanting to do their dad’s car — the car they grew up in.
Q: What’s a car cost from you?
A: Our basic hot rod starts at $250,000. Our elite series is $500,000 and above.
Q: That’s after I bring a car to you?
A: Right. Most of the cars we do are from before the 1970s. If you want, we’ll help you find a car (to customize). But everything is totally new when it leaves our shop. The cars have at least 800 horsepower and it goes as high as 1,500.
Q: Which brings us to that land-speed record you want.
A: Yeah, we’re going to try to go 300 m.p.h. If we do, it’ll be the fastest car you can get into that has a door. The streamliners (a faster category) look like jets without wings, and they have rocket engines.
Read the full article here.
Tags: Car Shows, Custom cars, Rad Rides, Trepanier
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