" He used Montgomery Ward, as an example and I remember what he said really well, "He said, Keith, each time I bring out a new style of wheel there were five different bolt patterns, four different widths, and three different diameters at that time 13"-14"-15"." He told Keith that he would send six sets of each to each store and Montgomery Ward had over 110 stores. You couldn't get down the aisles or reach products on the shelves." Christensen asked him why he had the giant and mixed up inventory, and Aaron explained that he sold to large companies that had 100 or more retail stores, such as Sears, Montgomery Ward, and discount stores which at the time were Whitefront, Fedmart and such. " My gosh," Keith told Kustomrama, " out in the warehouse, there were boxed rims stacked on pallets up and down 70 % of the aisles. " Never once saying I appreciate your input, or a thank you." Keith recalled that his office had new products strewn everywhere - " a real mess, but enlightening in what was coming up new!" I want to show you a new wheel I am going to produce." According to Keith, Aaron was all business, no friendliness of sorts. 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.
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