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Original Cara Hot Rod Gutars

For over 30 Years - Original Cara Hot Rod Guitars

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Old Capitol Trail, Wilmington, DE.

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302-521-0119

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Jim Cara is recognized in the Delaware Valley for repairing over 6000 guitars, and selling over 25 million dollars worth of musical instruments since 1980.
Jim Cara's been behind music retailers such as Accent Music, Mid Atlantic Music, and Music Museum, since 1978. He's become a consultant for Ibanez, Korg, Ensoniq, Marshall, and VOX and has dozens of awards to prove so. He also is a Marketing Director for the AMA/Prostar Drag Racing series.

Cara Hot Rod Guitars combine his love for both the Hot Rod Kulture and Guitars.
Original Cara Hot Rod Guitars, offers instrument repair, kustomizing, restoration, and refinishing. Incredible relicing and antiquing service is in-house. The facility can also design and build your unique kustom guitar. Cara Guitars offers a pick-up service at your home or work and also has a mobile repair facility for dealers who want to offer professional services to customers on-site. Cara Guitars is a warranty center for Gibson and Fender, and is an associate with lifelong friend Nick Bucci at Bucci Guitars also in Delaware.


Look for Cara Hot Rod Guitars at Eastern Regional Guitar shows and at special events around the tri-state area. Look for us in Vintage Guitar Magazine

My Interests

Drag Racing, Hot Rods, Guitars, Travel, Making and Building Stuff, Low Brow Art

I'd like to meet:

If I can go back in time, I'd like to meet my friend Eric Bolen again. I'd do what ever it took to make him think clearer.
Hmmm.. Live or Dead? Nikola Tesla, P.T. Barnum, Leonardo DiVinci, Benjamin Franklin, Ed Roth, Phil Lynott, Roy Buchanan
Last but not least.. Jesus the Magician, because he could do amazing tricks, and he can teach me how to make things disappear, and how to fly.
People I Met That Were Jerks:
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons. What a way to lose respect for people you looked up to. Always looking over your shoulder for something that was better than what you could offer them.

Music:

Anything.
Anyone who says they only like a certain type of music, does not get the concept, they are just an idolistic Fan of an artist.

Movies:

Evil Dead Series, Dusk till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, 12 O'Clock High, Red Dawn, The Godfather, Feast, Scarface, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,

Television:

The Munsters

Heroes:

My Wife, Nicola Tesla, PT Barnum, Leonardo DiVinci, Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham, the best two-guitar army of all-time. Puccini, Brian May and Billy Gibbons, Phil Lynott, Jeff Beck, The incredible Roy Buchanan (if you've never heard of him.... find out) Ian Moore and Carlos Santana, Todd Rundgren, The Ramones, Lenny Bruce, Evel Knevel, Blackie Lawless, Ritchie Scarlet, George Rumble, Kelly James, Bill Matson, The Dead End Kids, Alice, Johnny Thunders, Sid Vicious, John Lennon, Jimi, Robin Trower, Frank Marino, Danny Morris, The Ventures, Uli Roth. Nick Bucci, Andy Logue, Dave Matthews (delaware),
Plus, The Guy From Survivor who killed the pig with a knife, then fell into the charcoal and burned himself so bad he got kicked off the show.