Jumping headlong into a major automotive restoration project is the equivalent of playing the lead in a real-life teen horror movie. Anybody with a droplet of common sense knows better than to go near that ominous pothole of a project, but we just can’t help ourselves. Your own conscience is screaming at you not to do it. And, of course, we do it anyway. Because???? We convince ourselves that this time will be different! And, of course, every single time we come face to face with a sinister and scary Freddie Krueger-like set of circumstances lurking on the other side of the door. We routinely wake up in the middle of the night drenched in regret and perspiration over a project too late to abandon and too costly to continue. Checkbooks are destroyed along with our self-esteem. Then, magically, like six consecutive golf shots shanked into the weeds and the woods followed by one solitary good one……suddenly everything is right with the world when we slide behind the wheel for that first drive.
Having lived the horrors of ground up restorations myself, I watched in complete admiration and awe as I observed our restoration expert Bruce Van Straten take a carcass and turn it into a Camaro……not just any Camaro mind you, a rare, numbers matching 1971 Z28 Camaro. Only 4,862 were ever produced and far fewer survive today.
