Resurrecting Classics at Kindred Motorworks: From Shipyard to Restomod Icons
The building is as much a survivor as anything that rolls out of it. A hundred thousand square feet of steel and glass on Mare Island, where trains once clattered down the center to deliver parts for the war effort. For fifty years, it roared with the sound of welders, rivet guns, and shipbuilders racing against the clock that was World War II. Then it went silent. Dirt floors collected decades of dust. Fires took some of the neighboring structures. The rest were left to stand in the wind, monuments to a time when the country could turn out a battleship in weeks. A time when what was possible was dictated by what was necessary.
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