![]() When Christensen stopped by to pick up wheels, Aaron would hunt him down in the warehouse and say, " Keith, come into my office. " Five tier shelves ran through the majority of it." It was bigger than all the rest combined." According to Christensen, it was a few football fields long, and three times as wide. The intriguing part of it all was his warehouse. " He had a foundry, a polishing, and plating facility and an assembly area. Keith remembered Aaron building a giant plant in Gardena. " When I met the boy in Aaron's office he was telling me of his great desire, and that was to build a car with all Fenton products on it." Keith don't believe the car ever came to fruition as the OHV engine took over the market. " Strictly a point A to point B kind of car." He also recalls Aaron having a son. " Black hair and trim." Keith recalls Aaron driving a used 5-year old Jaguar. " He was mainly into custom parts, but did also sell stock parts that he chrome plated." Īaron was approximately 55-60 years old when Keith first met him. " He was a lawyer in the earlier years" Keith told Sondre Kvipt of Kustomrama in 2020, " but found the auto industry expanding and got into manufacturing of a large variety of auto parts." Keith recalls Aaron starting out in the 1950s. Keith Christensen bought wheels from Fenton in the 1960s to sell at his shop Gene's Mufflers and he became good friends with its founder Aaron Fenton. Photo courtesy of Fenton was a major auto parts manufacturing company in Gardena, California. A photo of Aaron Fenton taken in the mid- 1960s.
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