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So a few weeks ago, My buddy David from Bojangles Photography drove up to Santa Fe from San Diego. We decided to swing by the MoonEyes Open House. This was my first time ever attending & it was definitely cool venturing outside of the typical STANCE events that we usually attend. In fact, it was cool because we bumped into a few familiar faces from our very own car culture. Overall, it was a good day checking out the Mooneyes facility as well as seeing the kustom car culture, which David and I are big fans of.
I found it very welcoming that they had opened up their facility to the public. This gave us the perspective of how they did their own work. Most places would actually keep this portion of the area closed off. Upon entering the workshop, there were machinery and all sorts of crafty tools that would let you build the stuff that they do. Although one thing that I took notice was that all the machinery were very old fashion. You didn't see any high tech CNC machines or anything up to date, everything was kept old school and traditional.
Upon snooping around and enjoying ourselves in the shop, I noticed that each work area had it's own personality. As you can tell, the certain work area was very personal. Some desk's had female models pinned up, while others had old school car pictures pinned on the board and others had some hot wheels laying around. You can tell that each individual had their own personality and this is great when working in the automotive industry.
For those that don't know, MoonEyes produces Moon tanks, disc, and valve covers in their very own machine shop. A lot of the products that they produce are in house & walking around the shop you would be able to see all the raw parts before they get cut. MoonEyes also supply's other various items for hot rods, rat rods, kustoms and they also have a expanding line of motorcycle products as well.
While walking around the shop, you get this feel of nostalgia, everything is very old fashion and there's so much character within the building. To the untrained eye, you may see nothing extraordinary. But to us, what we saw was art. The shop was like an art gallery for us, we were so amazed by everything that we actually spent about an hour just dissecting everything in the shop.
I found it very welcoming that they had opened up their facility to the public. This gave us the perspective of how they did their own work. Most places would actually keep this portion of the area closed off. Upon entering the workshop, there were machinery and all sorts of crafty tools that would let you build the stuff that they do. Although one thing that I took notice was that all the machinery were very old fashion. You didn't see any high tech CNC machines or anything up to date, everything was kept old school and traditional.
Upon snooping around and enjoying ourselves in the shop, I noticed that each work area had it's own personality. As you can tell, the certain work area was very personal. Some desk's had female models pinned up, while others had old school car pictures pinned on the board and others had some hot wheels laying around. You can tell that each individual had their own personality and this is great when working in the automotive industry.
For those that don't know, MoonEyes produces Moon tanks, disc, and valve covers in their very own machine shop. A lot of the products that they produce are in house & walking around the shop you would be able to see all the raw parts before they get cut. MoonEyes also supply's other various items for hot rods, rat rods, kustoms and they also have a expanding line of motorcycle products as well.
While walking around the shop, you get this feel of nostalgia, everything is very old fashion and there's so much character within the building. To the untrained eye, you may see nothing extraordinary. But to us, what we saw was art. The shop was like an art gallery for us, we were so amazed by everything that we actually spent about an hour just dissecting everything in the shop.
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