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Now it's your chance to get your car customized by the Studio, ANYTHING YOU WANT WE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOU !

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ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DREAMED UP WE CAN BUILD IT UP FOR YOU, SO YOU CAN DRIVE IT ON THE STREET.

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ENTER BY SENDING YOUR DESIGN TO US AT STINGRAYSSSTUDIOS@AOL.COM WE ARE CALLING  OUT TO  ALL AUTO ARTISTS & DESIGNERS FOR A CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR ABILITY SHOWN TO YOUR BEST POSSIBLE LIGHT BY CREATING A NEW CUSTOMIZED CHEVROLET SILVERADO TRUCK !!!...HERE ARE THE PICTURES FROM  ALL OF THE ENTRANTS HERE SO FAR, ALL WILL BE PRESENTED WITH VARIOUS PRIZES FROM STINGRAYS STUDIOS, JUST FOR TAKING THE TIME TO PUT FORTH THE EFFORT TO ENTER WE APPLAUD ALL OF YOU WHO ENTERED HERE...WELL DONE. NOW, GO CHECK OUT THESE WILD DESIGNS !!!....VOTING FOR THE WINNER WILL START AS OF JAN 1 2010, SO GET YOUR ENTRY IN TO US NOW !!! SEND YOUR PICTURES TO US AT THIS LINK : STINGRAYSSTUDIOS@AOL.COM

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED INTEREST HERE !!

IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT US PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAIL TO ;

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OR CALL PETER ARCHER DIRECT WITH YOUR REQUESTS, ORDERS OR JUST TO DISCUSS A CUSTOM CAR PROJECT THAT YOU HAVE IN MIND, WE CAN HELP YOU TO MAKE IT HAPPEN !

MR. ARCHER'S DIRECT PHONE LINE IS 954 234 7495

...AND REMEMBER "DON'T CRUSH 'EM....RESTORE 'EM"

MORE NEW HOT ROD ARTWORK IS COMING HERE VERY SOON....SO STAY TUNED IN TO THIS PAGE !...YOU WILL BE VERY GLAD YOU DID !!!

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"The Warlock"

WHO IS STINGRAYSSTUDIOS ?
                                                   ...& WHAT ARE WE REALLY ALL ABOUT  ? :



Founded in 2005 by Peter Archer, stingraysstudios.com (which went online in 2007) has become the World's undisputed # 1 Auto Art Website by YOUR choice.  It is always our intention to deliver the Real Deal on the website, No BS, No advertising, with No need to Buy something  from us, truthfully, we rather Not sell stuff,...it is a pain in the ass. Instead we PREFER to offer you FUN, Entertainment & REAL ACTION !!...ALL for FREE !

NOW, WITH SPORTS SHOP TV we are set to bring our exclusive Auto Art, Live Race Art & Performance Events to a race track or car show near you !!!...stay tuned in here for more details on this exciting new development !!!



Now ...you may wonder WHY would we do this ?...Because we don't give a crap about getting your hard earned dollars....Keep it, pay your bills, buy what you NEED, enjoy your life....you will get no pressure here to spend that cash. If you see something here you just have to have, then OK, we will deliver for you, but the simple fact that you keep coming back & tell your friends about our site is good enough for us. That is truly the utimate compliment, & we thank each & every one of you for your continuing interest here, it means the World to us !



To date (April 2009) over 30 million visitors have come to our sites & we average over 35,000 people each day, now that may not be up there with You Tube or EBay...lol,... but for a auto art site...it is very impressive !
There is NO Other Auto Art site that even comes close to that accomplishment, for which WE OWE ALL OF YOU.



So, ....OK, Now I know what your thinking :....HOW do we support this effort ?,,,are we just Rich SOB's who need a tax writeoff ???....NO. Most of us are "Starving Artists" actually, who refuse to comprimise our principals that ART is it's own reward. But Yeah,....there IS more to it than that....our intentions are much more than "selling stuff"....We are here to INSPIRE & Connect with YOU !....& to do something that has never been done before.



In the coming months you are about to see exactly what our intentions have been from the start. YOUR support, by continuing to come here has enabled us to gain the support of Worldwide Companies & Media Networks.... & well, those guys are Impressed that YOU want to SEE what we are doing....& that is the payoff for us here.



We took a "different path" intentionally, not to "ride on the backs of our audience" but rather to DELIVER what YOU want ....whatever that is, & YOU are the ones who allowed this to happen,....so get ready @!!!



WE are gonna "strike" in a bolt of lighting like you have NEVER SEEN, across the entire Nation & the World.



Thanks to each of YOU for allowing us this oportunity, we will DELIVER the most amazing stuff you have seen.




  

           REPRINTED FROM LOCAL MOTORS.COM WEBSITE :

http://www.local-motors.com/studioHome.php

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Interview with Detroiter, "Stingraystudios"

Hey, LMers. As promised, here is a first in a series of interviews with Detroiters. Today we hone in on Peter Archer, aka stingraystudios to you.

I asked Peter questions that definitely spurred inspiring answers; we owe him a debt of gratitude for his willingness to share! I also asked questions that may have hit a few nerves, but he answered eloquently and passionately, and I find that his opinion mirrors a few other Detroiters that I know (see question #6). I know many who would disagree as well. But, our objective is to gain perspective; a Detroiter's perspective. So read on ....



1.) AF: Hi, Peter! Thank you for taking the time to share your vision of Detroit with the community. Can you tell us how much time you spent in Detroit, and whether you still consider it to be home?

PA: I was born in Detroit, so it will always be "home" for me, Growing up there ( in the 1960's) was a great place for a "kid" of my interests in Auto Design, Motor Racing & Music...or perhaps it was Because of Detroit that I grew into these interests as they are all "native" to the Detroit area. The area I grew up in was Franklin Village, an "upscale community" in that time, which was home to many of the Big 3 auto executives & I lived there until I was 16, when my family then moved to Ft; Lauderdale, Fl... which is where I live today.

Franklin was a very unique "village" as it has a center street where there was a Cider Mill, Meat Market, Church, Kindergarten School, Hardware store & that was it !.The Cider Mill was built in the 1800's had a giant wooden wheel that turned water from the stream behind up into the mill mashing the apples into make Cider, they also made fresh donuts every Sunday & people drove from miles around to come there after Church. It was a very close little community & a good place for a kid to grow up.

PA: Well, I was fortunate to have friends whose fathers were in the top executives of the Auto Industry & they very supportive of us "kids" who "drew cars", which I have been doing from age 5 !!!...lol. One of my best friends dad was Chuck Jordan, the head of GM Design who took the time to show & allow me to see the "inner workings" of the design studios at GM Tech Center. Going there was always a "treat" for me, to see cars from the future being "dreamed up", then to go into the assembly line factories & watch them actually build the cars I had seen on the drawing board, was a powerful experience.

Detroit is a very Diverse City, in that you have so many various areas where different social groups live & work, around the factories the workers there made a home for their families, Where I lived (about 40 miles from downtown ) the executives had big homes & yards, and downtown was the heart of the city, where the Real MOTOWN lived & flourished.

There you could find all the trappings of a successful metropolitan center, Art Museums, Symphony Halls, Corporate towers, Penthouse apartments, restaurants of every ethnic origin, Neighborhoods of mixed races & occupations, (something that back then in the 1960's was a fairly rare occurrence)...and of course the emerging Music Industry of Motown Records !! The people of Detroit truly influence the World in the work they did, & they know that well, it created a determination among the population that demands the very best of each person, because what they do each day matters to everyone, weather others understand that or not, Detroit truly became "The Heartbeat Of America"...& the World..

The City was always jump'in,... 24 hours a day !...& another unique aspect was the "tunnel" under the Detroit River which took you into Ontario, so you could "leave the Country" & come back in a night on the town !....another thing people may not realize is that there is a Giant salt mine Under the city of Detroit !!

In the summer months, we would go "up north" where my family had a cottage on the Lake, there we would fish in the streams (fly fishing for trout mostly), go boating (we had a speedboat with a Mustang 289 in it ! )...and take speed buggy tours of the sand dunes, where you would get in a Big Olds Convertible, & they would drive 60 mph or more over the dunes, it was a blast to do this !!!

In the Winter we would go snow sking, snowmobiling & tobogganing down the steep hills of northern Michigan, & even in my neighborhood we had some big "Hills" ...so, you learned real quick how to control a sled...or you crashed, hard !...lol.

But I have to say my favorite "pastime" aside from drawing cars, was Go Kart Racing, we had several different types of Karts & mini bikes, we even had a fiberglass bodied Monza GT go kart !!..it looked like the Stingray Corvette design !!!, ...my friend even had one of these built by GM for him !

PA: Woodward Avenue. The "infamous" strip of asphalt that runs across town, that led to it being known as the Underground Drag Racing Capital of the USA....for no small reasons. Anything you could imagine & more that you could never believe showed up here !! Even Chevrolet engineering brought a 427 VEGA to "The Avenue"...it became a "unofficial" test track for all the Big 3 back in the day !!!

Cobo Hall. This was the main showcase for Detroit Automakers each year, where they came to the hall like Gladiators in the Rome, to do battle against each other for the top honors. The building even has a Freeway running UNDER the lenghth of it !!!...where else but Detroit !!!

TIger Stadium. When I left Detroit in 1968 to move to Florida, the Detroit Tiger Baseball team won the World Series Pennant, it was a affrimation of the City after the 1967 race riots that burned almost 1/25th of the city into ashes. These were very trubulent times, in spite of the fact Detroit WAS much more "integrated" than most American cities at the time, today those problems pale in comparision to the Present Day Crisis within Detroit. But Tiger Statium was the REAL crowning jewel of the City that year, when all of the poeple there were "Detroiters" !!

PA: YES, ...as long as the sport involves motor racing !!! ....
In my opinion Mr. Earnest Hemmingway said it best : "There are only 3 sports that are TRUE SPORTS, Mountian Climbing, Boxing & Auto Racing....the rest are just guys playing with balls "


PA: I really did not have a choice in that, my family moved to Florida when I was 16, so....but I did agree to go, so....it was a new adventure for me at the time, & I have no regerts about it at all. Had I stayed in Detriot, I have No Doubt Whatsoever that I would be designing cars for General Motors today, I had the skills, the connections & most importantly the Talent to do that. I have thought about going back & buying my old home there as well, for a " summer house", as it get's pretty Hot in Florida during the summer months, I even went to a realator to find out what it would cost to buy my old house, (it was not for sale), I should propbably go back Now & buy it as it would most likey be a "deal" & a half considering the current ecomomy in Detroit !!!....but that is not me, I have no pleasure or desire to take advantage of someone eles'e misfortune for my personal gain. So, no I'm not going back.

PA : Detroit needs nothing more than the opportunity to show it has, it can today & will continue to lead the World in the Automotive Industry. I think that most of the reason Detroit is in such a desperate condition today falls upon the Federal Government of the USA, for failing to provide the "Level Playing Field" required by a Free Trade Global Economy.

For over 100 years the Big 3 have taken care of ALL the employees who ever worked for them & thier families too !!...via health care & pensions which those people EARNED with hard work & long hours of dedication to the Auto Companies of Detroit. PEOPLE THAT BUILT THE USA INTO A REAL FREE COUNTRY & WORLD POWER TO BE RESPECTED.

Detroit still sells more cars combined than the rest of the World, In spite of the FACT that now, the Import companies have those "costs" taken care of for them by thier respective Governments, & Detroit Companies do not, creating an "unfair" trade imbalance due to the cost per vehicle produced, the average cost of each car built in Detroit comes with a $5000 fee attached, to pay for those costs, Before the Car is even Built !!!...

Import companies have been allowed to undercut Detroit, hire workers at half the rates, provide none of the benefits, & get Tax Free incentives & Free Land with exsisting factories, Had Detroit been given these same considerations & the Government "stepped up to the level of the World Market game" by providing some sort of Health care & pension relief for the Big 3, this current "crisis" would NEVER have occured.

It is a SAD commentry on the state of the USA, that this has been allowed to happen as there was NO EXCUSE for it at all. GM continues to build as many cars as anyone worldwide, yet has been "singled out" to pay the price for ALL of this, just at the time they are about to introduce a series of new models that are revolutionary in nature, like the Chevy Volt.

It is NO coincidence that these "troubles" are coming at this exact time, when Detroit is ready to forsake the "OIL COMPANY" base of the automobile, for a cleaner more dynamic design method. Big Money is at stake here & right now,..indeed the future of the World Auto Market is on the line.

I have no doubt that the PEOPLE of Detroit & those in the American Auto Companies can & will previal over these current chgallenges,...they are some of the smartest people I have ever known in my life, & are under no delusions as to the real causes of what is happening today !!

If I have any hesitations from the course of my life, it would be that I wish I was in Detroit today, ...just so I could be part of kick'in the World in the ass.

Once again.

DETROIT ROCKS !