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S ure, a body kit with black side vents might look decent on your 2017 LS. But a custom wing spoiler and a fluorescent paint wrap? Certainly not. Luxury drives a fine line between garish and classy, and in the automotive world, nobody understands that better than Stephen Stasiulewicz, the founder and CEO of Lux Motorwerks, the elite custom car shop in Keyport, NJ. Stasiulewicz is an automotive aesthete. His eye for detail and appreciation for a vehicle's original design have taken Lux Motorwerks, in its seven short years of business, to the top of the custom car food-chain. Nowhere are these stylistic sensibilities more apparent than in the 458 Ferrari Spider Lux Motorwerks recently customized. When the 458 Spider first came to Stasiulewicz, the owner was only interested in a new head-unit. So Stasiulewicz oversaw the installation of a double-DIN Pioneer navigation system, which required a creative solution to a common concern. "A lot of these Ferrari owners, they want to customize the car but they're afraid of the resale," Stasiulewicz explained. "So what I did was I devised a bracket that goes [inbetween the console and the dash] to hold the whole radio, hold everything in there, so that there are no holes in the car whatsoever." LUX MOTORWERKS Customizing A Ferrari 458 Spider By Brian McHugh V U E N J . C O M 120 VUE ON AUTOMOTIVE

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