Rabin’s customers include such hobby notables as Ralph Lauren and Jay Leno, pictured here with a 1919 Rolls-Royce that Rabin created the wheel covers for.
VR: Mike, how did first come to be bitten by the car bug?
MR: When I was a baby maybe two years old, three years old, I tried to have a tootsie toy of every car there was. That’s what started my collection of cars and things like that. And from that point on, they were just always a fascination. We were not on the very wealthiest side of the world at that particular point and my father would only get a car maybe once or twice a year and that was mainly for a business purpose. We didn’t really have any vehicles in the family at that point. We lived in Chicago, we had a little candy store and that’s where I worked behind the counter starting at the age of five, waiting on trade and things like that.
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