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Paul Magee is the founder of 95 Customs.com, a place fueled by motor culture. Paul’s an industrial designer with an irrational love of cars and bikes. He has lead design teams for large corporations and he’s been awarded 75 design and utility patents. He’s a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), The Design Management Institute (DMI), and the Sports Car Club of America. He has served on the Board of Directors for IDSA and actively serves in board advisory roles for the SCCA and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Paul campaigns an F Modified formula car in the SCCA Solo program and he has earned 12 National Tour and ProSolo victories.
SHOW SPONSOR
NOCO Genius Boost Jump Starter
CarpeGear.com The Little Red Racing Car
SUCCESS QUOTES
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
CAREER CHALLENGE
Paul shares the metaphor between business challenge and racing cars that in both instances it is important to keep looking down the road and to keep your head up.
AH-HA MOMENTS
When working to define what his new business was going to offer customers he discovered something he never thought would be a success was what the customer wants.
FIRST SPECIAL CAR & BIKE
A 1985 VW Golf and a Kawasaki H1, the “Widow Maker”
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Make sure your eyes are looking where you want to go.
AUTOMOTIVE RESOURCES
Strano Performance Parts – www.stranoparts.com
Pete Cowic Ohio Metashaping – www.facebook.com/OhioMetalShaping
FAVORITE BOOKS
Cosmic Motors– Daniel Simon
Guts – Robert A. Lutz
PARTING ADVICE
Be unapologetically authentic.
HOW TO FIND PAUL
95 Customs – www.95customs.com
Facebook – www.facebook.com/95Customs
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