

"But Hondas were the big sellers, and after fixing and selling about a dozen of them, I started learning how to make money off customization." Muwahah! Monsters! "I've owned and built-up pretty much every Honda except for a DA Integra," he tells. "I started out buying wrecked cars and pretty much stocking them," he says.

At 16 Hai began learning bodywork and paint from his mentors, and by the age of 18, he noticed a lucrative business opportunity: Scavenging parts from the dead, and creating monsters to flip for monster profits. "All my older friends were into them when I was younger, so I was around the parts market from day one." Even before he could drive he could wrench. Think of him as an automotive undertaker/mad scientist, and his mortuary-Importwerkz Autobody N Paint in Stockton, CA-as the automotive equivalent of Dr. Hai has built his life by managing what happens post mortem in the automotive world.
