Jared Barris and his mother, Joji Barris-Paster, sit inside a replica of the Batmobile on display in the showroom at Barris Kustom Industries in North Hollywood. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) A ...

Downtown Santa Ana is full of history, but no place takes you back to another era quite like Custom Auto Service. The handsome and well-preserved building at 302 French Street, built in 1919 as an ...

You know what's so great about paint? There's no rules. They have laws restricting nearly everything else you do to your car: how low you lower it, how high you raise it, how fast you drive it, how ...