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Burning desire

PARADISE FIRE THING

Do you have a burning desire to build your own car one day? Do you picture it, daydream about it, save pictures on your ’phone for inspiration for when that day arrives? I do. It’s mostly just a collection of ideas. The car itself is not set in stone. It could be anything, but what it needs to be is the perfect base for the build.

Jon Winters from Yorba Linda, CA is a man who was in the right place at the right time to find one of the most perfect starting points for a personal build.

“I saw a random post in May 2020 on the Thing Registry Blog about a rusted-out ’shell sitting at the Sierra Nevada foothills in Paradise, north California. By the end of that

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