July 2016

Joe Compani, Ryan Campi, and Travis Duffy are the outstanding team at Compani Color and have body worked and painted some amazing and award-winning cars. In this episode Nic sat down with them at their shop in Hayward, CA to talk hot rods, customs, muscle cars, and hear stories about some of the incredible cars they’ve worked on. From their humble beginnings working in a local collision repair shop or pushing a broom at Roy Brizio’s Street Rods in South San Francisco, Joe and Ryan have been friends since High School and worked their way up to opening up a shop of their own, where they’ve recently been joined by Travis and continue to put in hard work and crank out flawless paint jobs on some of our generations most significant cars.

Here’s a few pics from Instagram that show some of the cars we talked about in the interview. I know in these interviews we sometimes cover a lot of ground pretty quickly, so I wanted to make some attempt to make these more accessible for people less familiar with the work that these guys do and give you something to look at when you listen to the episodes. Thanks for listening!

The Dragoons Car Club’s annual “Nite of the Hot Rods” is one of my favorite shows in the Bay Area. I’m not sure what exactly it is about this show that makes it so unique; is it the fact that the Riverview Lodge is the perfect venue? Is it the goofy and good-natured spirit of the host club The Dragoons? Is it the fact that it’s free? Is it the local punk rock bands, the ever-present wind over the Suisun Bay and the setting sun as this show goes on into the evening? I don’t know, but there’s something special about this show that I really enjoy. It reminds me of simpler times where friends met up in person instead of by smartphone, where new builds were discovered by going out to a show or cruise night instead of on social media, and where new bands were discovered because they were playing at a show instead of popping up on your streaming service of choice. With that said, here are a handful of pics I managed to squeeze in between the crowd, I can’t wait until next time.