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San Francisco Rod, Custom and Motorcycle Show
San Francisco, CA
Cow Palace
January 12-13-14, 2007

Rick Dore Makes a Family Dream come True

October 16, 2006 It’s not often a custom car builder can fulfill a family’s dream. It was about a year ago that Arizona designer/builder; Rick Dore received a call from Pat Warner of New Jersey, who asked Rick if he would finish a 1969 Pontiac Firebird for her family. Rick was about to tell her he usually doesn’t do that type of car when Pat stated that it was for her kids and a tribute to her late husband, Brian Warner who was lost in the twin towers on 9/11. Rick was so honored he couldn’t say no and went full steam ahead into the project.

The Pontiac convertible was a project that Pat’s late husband, who had a passion for Firebirds, had stated in 1992-93 and she wanted to finish the car so their 6-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter can have their dads Firebird convertible to remember him. She wants the car to stay in the family and never be sold so it had to be done right. Pat is a friend of Don and Flo Makofski for whom Rick had built a custom 1950 Hudson that won the Custom D’Elegance


	Award at the 2003 San Francisco Rod, Custom and Motorcycle Show and they recommended Rick for the project.

Rick started with an artist rendering and is in the process of a ground - up build of the custom 1969 Pontiac Firebird worthy of honoring Brian, who worked at Kanter/Fitzgerald in the twin towers and lost his life on September 11, 2001.

The Warner families car will be unveiled Friday evening, January, 12, 2007, at the San Francisco Rod, Custom and Motorcycle Show when Pat and her family will see the car for the very first time since Rick picked the car up in New Jersey earlier this year.

For information regarding the San Francisco Rod, Custom and Motorcycle show go to www.sfcustomshow.com or call them at 209-744- 8090. For Rick Dore go to www.rickdorekustoms.com

About Rp Productions Inc.

Rp Productions Inc. has been producing the premier indoor automotive event in Northern California for 7 years. In 2001 the show was premiered at the Oakland Coliseum. In 2004 we moved to the Cow Palace where the show has taken root. Rick Perry has been promoting Car shows for over 25 years.
Website: http://www.sfcustomshow.com

Michael Dobrin/MDPR

Michael Dobrin has been involved with promoting, publicizing and writing about the American hot rod scene since the early '60s, when he joined NHRA as a publicist. He's handled public relations for the Grand National Oakland Roadster Show under the reign of Harold "Baggy" Bagdasarian and the late Don Tognotti. He writes regularly for publications like Street Rodder and The Rodder's Journal and has been the co-curator of the Oakland Museum of California exhibition, "Hot Rods & Customs: The Men and Machines of California's Car Culture."

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