Letters

Credit offered for work on hot rods

We own Tim’s Hot Rods in Spokane Valley and have been in business building hot rods for 23 years. The Chrysler Airflow and the Lincoln Zephyr mentioned in the article (Your Voice, June 3) were primarily built by our shop.

Chris Ledgerwood of Extreme Customs painted both cars and did some of the bodywork. We’ve have always given him credit.

The difference between a builder and a painter can be compared to the human body. The heart, lungs, nervous system, circulatory system, etc., is the part the builder does. It makes the body walk, talk and function in general.

The plastic surgery and makeup is what the painter does. For Russ Freund to claim they built both of the record-selling cars is incorrect.

Your paper did an article on our shop and the building of the Airflow and Zephyr approximately three years ago (June 2004) when the Discovery channel was here to do a segment on our shop for their TV show.

An Associated Press article and hot rod magazines have also covered our building of those cars, as did Barret-Jackson. (Russ Freund had nothing at all to do with the Zephyr.)

As for the description under the picture of the ‘39 coupe owned by Jess Jones: The custom handmade grille, suicide doors and chopped top were all done by our son, Marty Stromberger, as an employee of Tim’s Hot Rods.

Just want to set the record straight.

Tim and Arlene Stromberger

Spokane Valley