Gene Winfield - long-time hotrodder and customizer - has died at the age of 94.
“We all know Gene Winfield as the brilliant custom car builder and designer that he was, but there was a generosity and concern for the future of the hobby that was always at the front of Gene’s thoughts,” said David Steele, executive director of the American Hot Rod Foundation. “He expressed this by way of his wonderful fabrication master classes where he’d teach younger builders the techniques of top-chopping and leading, as well as paint fading and other disciplines that Gene had mastered, and was always promoting this thing he loved to the younger audience.”
“We all know Gene Winfield as the brilliant custom car builder and designer that he was, but there was a generosity and concern for the future of the hobby that was always at the front of Gene’s thoughts,” said David Steele, executive director of the American Hot Rod Foundation. “He expressed this by way of his wonderful fabrication master classes where he’d teach younger builders the techniques of top-chopping and leading, as well as paint fading and other disciplines that Gene had mastered, and was always promoting this thing he loved to the younger audience.”
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