Hooker s partner, Lin Coates, runs the body shop, specializing in body work and painting. Hooker can build a car from scratch, including milling the nuts and bolts, and engine, or rejuvenate and customize a junker. Schools teach custom-car building, but Hooker says that s only the beginning. He said customizing a car is a collaborative effort with the client. Demand is coming from baby boomers who have come of age.
Clients come from throughout the United States.
They are doctors, lawyers and politicians, including Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo. Washington D.C. For Hooker, the work is pure joy. And it s always different. Contents copyright 2000, the Durango Herald. All rights reserved.