Chopit Kustom

Press

The "Beatnik" has been sold for $360,000 at the Monterey Sports & Classic Car Auction, August 18, 2006.  There is another feature article in the February 2007 Rod & Custom Magazine by Tim Bernsau titled "Over The Top" about the bubble top Beatnik.  Bernsau writes "we consider it a compliment to say that somebody is ahead of his time.  In the hot rod and custom hobby, it can be a compliment to say that somebody is after his time.  He goes on to say that Gary "Chopit" Fioto is about 45 years "after" his time.  "His taste, talent  and the cars he builds at Chopit Kustom all seem to pop right out of Rod & Custom magazines of the late '50's and early 60's back when builders like Bill Hines, Bill Cushenberry, George Barris, Darryl Starbird, the Alexander Brothers and Ed Roth were taking custom cars far beyond imaginatively modified street cars and elevating them onto a whole new level of wildly mutated show mobiles".  Thanks for the great article.

Read the exclusive RM auction articles on the Beatnik, Tuff Enuff and Harley Deville below!