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    The Desert Sun, CA
    May 2 2005

    You do what? Car sculpture


    Chris Bagley

    Greg Tutunjian has sculpted a Corvette into the form of a Ferrari
    Testarossa. He once made a Ferrari into a limousine. He has wrought a
    pickup into a limo, too. This spring, he went the other way, turning
    a Toyota Avalon sedan into a pickup.

    Such is business at Prestige Auto Design, a one-man body shop in a
    North Palm Springs industrial park, where wind from the Banning Pass
    whips through the dusty desert shrubbery. Tutunjian says the city is
    an oasis for self-expression and for businesses that drink it. He
    arrived in 1991.

    "People here - they have some kind of attitude," Tutunjian says.
    "They like to be noticeable. They like to be individuals - unique."

    Tutunjian has contracted out parts of various jobs from time to time.
    But the work is too valuable to leave in the hands of a protégé, he
    said. Would a professional let a Ferrari under someone else's knife?
    he asks.

    Tutunjian - or "Koko" in his circle of Armenian friends - came to the
    United States in 1968, he said, after his handiwork turned heads in
    the American consulate in the Mediterranean city of Aleppo. He worked
    in a custom-car division of General Motors from 1969 until 1972, and
    later ran a body shop in Albany, N.Y.

    That's where he "stretched" the Ferrari. "Compared to this, the
    Avalon is peanut butter," Tutunjian said.

    --Boundary_(ID_GMw3HLUjeb9oP4Lz/jw6iQ)--

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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