Early era Chevys and deforestation sort of go hand in hand, they are a combination of tongue and groove lumber on the inside and a metal skin on the outside. Many decades later this can be viewed as either a blessing or a challenge depending on how much of this lumber is still left in your car. This car sat off the ground on its wheels and the rain fell through the big hole in the roof where leather and lumber used to reside. Much of the wood was rotted away, yet there was just enough left to use as patterns to make replacement parts out of.
There are a few ways to go when redoing a Chev of this era. One is to find a manufacturer of replacement wood kits and replace all of the wood as it was back in 1934, or as in this case manufacture metal parts to weld in where the wood use to be. I had some pretty good representations of what use to be there and with a bit of creative license I made the parts from metal.
What do you get when you cross a 1973 Challenger with a 2006 Magnum? A whole pile of work, and a darn fine automobile.
Pete Richter, a stone mason and contractor by trade is no stranger to taking a pile of rubble and turning it into something great. So with winter just around the corner, Pete sold his freshly painted C4 Corvette to purchase this pristine pile of oxidizing architecture. This 73 Challenger was just waiting for someone to pull it out of the dirt and give a long awaited for restoration. Well that was the intention, but as many a car project goes this one took a bit of a turn...
Looks Like a Camaro, Feels like
a Camaro, Sure isn’t much
of a Camaro...
There are those that will go to great lengths to build their own car, this build may be taking recycling to an extreme.
You just have to come back to see what happens to this diamond in the ruff, you will be impressed.
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