Land of opportunity

This truly is why the U.S. is the best. A guy escapes war in a foreign land so he can come to the U.S. and -- no doubt realizing the dreams his parents had for him -- open a store selling aftermarket rims:

Hamid Ahmadi understands this and he wasn't even born in this country. Ahmadi, 42, fled his home town of Kabul to escape the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Today he runs Big Boys Toys in Oxon Hill, a flat-out fabulous red, yellow and black testament to the terminally automotive hip. Every week somebody comes in and drops $4,475 for a set of 24-inch Omega spinners.

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And people say this country is going to hell in a handbasket.

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"We have 400 different models in stock," Ahmadi is saying in the back storeroom, where tires and rims are stacked in long, profit-rich rows. "I want my customers to be able to feel, touch, smell the product before they buy it. We don't make you wait, either. You buy it, we mount them on the car in an hour, hour and a half if we're busy."

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!