The Real Reason Why Inside West Coast Customs Ended
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West Coast customs is probably the most popular custom shop in the world. It was the custom shop behind the first really mainstream car show, Pimp My Ride, and since Pimp My Ride ended the shop has gone on to be behind another car show named Inside West Coast Customs.

The shop has a very interesting history too and is probably the one shop in the world that does not have an exact founding date. According to some, the shop was founded way back in 1994, and others say it was 1997.

In any case, what we do know for sure is that the shop was incorporated in the year 2000 by Ryan Friedlinghaus, a young mechanic who had a passion for building custom made cars.

However, Friedlinghaus had discovered quite early in his life that there were almost no garages that could do all everything needed to make a custom car inhouse.

So he created West Coast Customs as a shop that could make custom cars from top to bottom without outsourcing any part of the vehicle. That was his vision for West Coast Customs, and for a while, that was precisely what the shop was.

At first, the shop did not get a lot of orders, but soon celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal started bringing their expensive cars around for custom effects and that is when West Coast Customs blew up.

Before long, the shop drew the attention of media giants MTV and they pitched the show Pimp My Ride to Friedlinghaus. But here was the catch, Friedlinghaus was not going to be the host of the show. It would merely be hosted in his shop and he would be the one to coordinate the actual work on the vehicles. The real host of the show would be a rapper named Xzibit.

In the end, Pimp My Ride was a successful show, but after the first few years, West Coast Customs started seeing the first problems that would eventually run the shop out of reality TV shows forever.

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