Big boys, tricked-out toys - The News Journal
By the time he turned 9, Eric Eisenberg knew his way around a blow torch to turn junk bikes into conversation pieces. Growing up in Dover, Eisenberg found a girl's bike in the dumpster, slapped a horizontal crossbar on it and added a 20-inch wheel out front. "I had to make something wild, goofier than he had," Eisenberg remembers. Eisenberg's Very Wild Car Company, tucked into a garage park in Wilmington, has produced three-wheel roadsters called Fire Arrows and a coffin car outfitted from a 1969 Volkswagon Karmann Ghia. The coffin, bought used after an engraving mistake, became the seating for a street-legal car that eventually sold on eBay for $3,500. The Chicago woman who bought it was a fan of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas," says Eisenberg, who... This weekend, Hoffman's company will produce the 14. Here, it's all about the hook up, meaning chrome, fiberglass bumpers, fender skirts, knobby tires that belong off-road, 5,000-amp systems, video monitors, bubble blowers in trunks, and TVs... Ninety percent of the show cars double as daily commuters,. Source: www.delawareonline.com
