danny koker owns count's kustoms in las vegas.
danny koker owns count's kustoms in las vegas.
who owns count's kustoms in las vegas?
danny koker
bullet::::- danny "the count" koker, lead vocals, is best known for his role on "counting cars," which is on its seventh season on history. in addition to fronting the band, koker owns and heads count's kustoms, the auto shop featured on the show. he also owns a rock and roll bar and grill in las vegas, count's vamp'd, as well as count's tattoo company, a tattoo parlor at the rio all suite hotel and casino. his father, the late danny koker, was a member of the southern gospel group the cathedral quartet, and taught his son a love of music. the count credits his father as the reason he wanted to start a band, saying, "he was all about music and he brought me up in it, so for me, [the band] was something that could feed my soul. it was something that could help me cope with losing him. to this day, every time we play, i have at least one moment on that stage where i feel close to him somehow."
count's 77
bullet::::- danny "the count" koker is the proprietor of count's kustoms, a shop devoted to the repair and restoration of motor vehicles, automobiles, and motorcycles in particular. the shop's name is derived from koker's stint as part-owner of local independent station kfbt (now kvcw), during which he hosted a weekly b-movie showcase, "saturday fright at the movies", as "count cool rider". danny, who grew up in cleveland and detroit, is a self-taught mechanic who comes from a family of ford motor company employees. he has over 50 cars in his personal collection, and is so obsessed with finding, buying and converting classic american muscle cars and motorcycles that when he sees a vehicle he admires, he will go out of his way to acquire it, even making on-the-spot purchase offers while cruising around vegas with kevin, or searching through parking lots at car shows. while he enjoys classic vehicles, danny dislikes newer vehicles, and generally rejects offers to work on them. he has been running his business for over 15 years by the time of the series premiere, and was a recurring motorcycle and automobile restoration expert on "pawn stars", first appearing in the third-season episode "getting a head" in september 2010. he has also appeared as an expert on the "pawn stars" spinoff, "american restoration". in addition to count's kustoms, koker also owns count's vamp'd rock bar and grill, and count's tattoo company, a tattoo parlor at the rio all suite hotel and casino, that was formerly a partnership with vince neil. he also heads a las vegas hard rock band, count's 77.
counting cars