Serendipity Studios Blog – Photography & Cinematography

I’ll be the first one to tell you I don’t know much about cars.  I can change a tire and change the oil, but that’s about as far as it goes.  I’ve just never had that gift, that knack, for being able to pop the hood and get things done.

But that never stopped me from having favorite dream cars.  I still remember the first time I saw a centerfold spread of a silver Porsche 911 when I was 14.  I fell in love .. and to this day a part of me still wants that Porsche.

As much as I enjoyed staring at that centerfold pinned to my wall as a teen, my first car ‘love’ was actually the famed Cobra.  It all started with the song “Hey, Little Cobra” by The Rip Chords, which I no doubt heard on some dreadfully-long road trip with the parents while they listened to the “golden oldies”.  The song was catchy, and the car sounded cool.  I was hooked … and when I actually got to see my first Cobra it was instantly my first dream car.  How could you not love this car?

So when I walked into Charley Hutton’s auto shop yesterday I was thrilled to see the legend car from my childhood.  Speaking of legends, when I walked into Charley’s shop I had no idea he was a legend.  I knew he was known.  I knew he’d been on TV (TLC’s Overhaulin’).  I knew he had a team of sponsors behind him.  I just didn’t know he was ‘the man’.

But Charley is ‘the man’.  The work he does on automobile is just downright gorgeous.  He’s a perfectionist, and I can totally relate.  I could also relate because Charley is just a really nice and polite, down-to-earth kind of guy.  I was there to film him and his shop for a sponsor promo, and afterwards I got have lunch with him.  It’s just so refreshing to meet someone with such talent and success, and find out they don’t have an ego the size of Texas.  A lot of people out there could learn a lot from Charley Hutton, and I’m not talking about paintjobs.

post by | Travis