I grew up loving hot rod and custom cars and still follow them mostly thru B-J and Mecum auctions on TV and a subscription to "The Rodder's Journal" which is sort of a high production value cross between the old "Hot Rod" magazine and "American Heritage". The parallels mentioned between old bikes and old cars are all valid. One thing I often see in these auctions and in TRJ is resto-mods and I am fascinated by the idea of applying this outside the box approach to rejuvenating old bicycles.