BASIC METALWORKING TIPS, TOOLS & SCHOOL ‘ET ROD P l F NEW ROD PARTS ua U Ta DTT edaGo to School and eu CUR Ca Be CCl ue AND HERE'S THE MAN HIMSELF, MASTER METALMAN LAZZE JANSSON IN HIS CALIFORNIA SHOP. HE'S SURROUNDED BY PROJECTS HIS STUDENTS HAVE BUILT. Larze Metal Dreams « Dept St, 160 Wtf Unc, Oakdale, (95361 209/247-1218‘When most street rodders look back con their life with cars, they can remember a certain pivotal moment ‘when cars became indelibly etched into thelr life. For this writer, It was a clear autumn day when a chopped and channeled Deuce three-window stopped at the light on Main Street and Landing Avenue. ttwas para mount to divine intervention, and instantly it became clear that this 12- year-old would someday build a hot rod coupe. Some 10 years later, when my own first hot rod rolled out of the garage, twas with a sense of wonder that the job had been completed. New skills, very basic tools and some welding classes at the community college had ‘made it all possible—that and some friends who did. have skills had yert® master. That was 1969, andone hot rod Model A coupe was finally on the road. The rebirth of street Fodding was Just beginning at that point, and within the small and tight-knit hot rod com- ‘munity, a certain degree of knowl ‘edge, skills and labor techniques was shared in an effort to help fellow street rodders get their projects com- pleted. It seemed as if every time a rod magazine wat delivered to my door. | learned some new facts, and more of the detalls and skills This learning process never stops, and every car you workion teaches you lesson and provides a place to hone your existing skills and develop new ones. Shortcuts, better methods, ‘an abundance of tools andimproved use ofrmiaterials make our streetrads (Better every year. It also bings more: