Hey, Gypsy, do you live anywhere near Leadhill, Ark.? There's a guy living there named Norm Grabowski. He calls his place The Wood Ranch because he sculps stuff out of wood---weird stuff. He is a real character who you MAY have seen in some movies. He's the guy who invented the T-bucket street rod back in the late 50s or early 60s. His rod was the one driven by the TV character Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip. Norm, himself, played a guy called Huh on one of the Frankie Avalon Beach movies and a speaking part in a WW II movie with Glenn Ford. Sometime in the mid 1970s, he got tired of the Los Angeles scene and moved to Leadhill and "retired" from building custom hotrods.
Anyway, Uncle Norm is a person I'd like to meet, but haven't had a chance. The last time I saw him, he was on Jesse James' TV program, Monster Garage when all those car customizers built the old school 54 Chevy custom. Norm is the guy that cut his leg on a piece of equipment on the show. If you saw that program, he gave a weird wood carving to Jesse for the custom's dashboard.