Introduction

[Jimmy Hervatin]

My name is Jimmy Hervatin from Missouri. I have a precision sheet metal fabrication shop I work in every day. I went to school to be a aircraft mechanic, did that for 3 years. I taught myself autobody repair while I was doing that. I worked in bodyshops for four years. I started metal fabrication while I was working at the bodyshop. I got so busy doing fab work. I quit the bodyshop and worked for myself ever since. (Last 25 yrs)
I took some seminars from Scott Knight,Ron Fournier,Ron Covell, & Fay Butler. Over time I brought a lot of shaping equipment. I think I was the 1st person to build a double headed Yoder look a like. Pictures in the Advance Sheet Metal book. My favorite cars are hotrods and kustoms off the forty & fifty's. I am the guys that built the aluminum model A pickup off of Keith Weesner's artwork. Won the 2010 Streetrodder Top 100 grand prize that year. Currently working on another Weesner drawing called Lit-Up (chopped,sectioned, channeled 51 Ford F-1.