Bull in the Basement
DVD!!
Hear directly from Ken Imhoff, the crazy true story about his life's obsession to build a Lamborghini in his basement. This is an incredibly inspiring documentary that covers a 17 year span where Ken Imhoff, with the support of his wife Eileen, works to fulfill his dreams. The DVD includes never before seen video footage, interviews, pictures and more.
The Book
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A crazy true story about a man and his life's obsession to build a Lamborghini in his basement.
"The book project sounds fascinating--as does the car itself!"-Peter Egan- Road & Track.
I am
in awe of your accomplishment. Your story will find an audience, no doubt.-Joanne Gordon-Author
" One of the most insane projects I've ever seen. Staggering. Congratulations! -Matt Crawford -Author
"Your car and story is extremely impressive. Craftsmanship and patience like that is a rare thing these days". -Ben Wojdyla-Editor Jalopnik
-Sample read- Chapter 1
I bought that book and many others I found over the years. I collected posters–over 50 in all–from every place I could find them. I received Lamborghini memorabilia as birthday presents from my family. My brother-in-law always liked to draw my name during Christmas because I was so fun to shop for. I would find even some co-workers would leave little Lamborghini trinkets on my desk. I started reading Road & Track and Car and Driver to capture insights of writers who made me feel as if I was in the cockpit, turning the key and lighting up that fabled 12-cylinder of an engine! It was a fun filled escape to imagine what it would be like hitting redline on the tach, reaching for the next gear, hanging on every word the authors so cleverly chose. For the time being, that was as close as I was going to get to really driving one, and I was fairly content with that. I knew deep down I would eventually own a Lamborghini; I just didn’t know how.
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I recommend these products for no other reason than from my personal experience with these individuals that share the same passion.
METAL FABRICATOR'S HANDBOOK by Ron Fournier
SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT by Matthew B. Crawford
A philosopher / mechanic destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one’s hands.
Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be receding from society: making and fixing things. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack of connection to the material world, a sense of loss, and find it difficult to say exactly what we do all day. For anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing.
On both economic and psychological grounds, Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker,” based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand from that of the mind. Crawford shows us how such a partition, which began a century ago with the assembly line, degrades work for those on both sides of the divide.
But Crawford offers good news as well: the manual trades are very different from the assembly line, and from dumbed-down white collar work as well. They require careful thinking and are punctuated by moments of genuine pleasure. Based on his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford makes a case for the intrinsic satisfactions and cognitive challenges of manual work. The work of builders and mechanics is secure; it cannot be outsourced, and it cannot be made obsolete. Such work ties us to the local communities in which we live, and instills the pride that comes from doing work that is genuinely useful. A wholly original debut, Shop Class as Soulcraft offers a passionate call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.
