Just picked up the latest issue of Classic American magazine, (number 216).
There's a feature on a gorgeous bottle green '69 Plymouth Roadrunner, (the plastic wrapped one in our snapshots). Looks stunning now, but the vinyl roof it had when the owner bought it hid the fact that it'd been rolled. When the headlining was ripped out it revealed chunks of wood wedged between the roof spars & the outside skin. The chassis was found to be twisted, (sound familiar?), to such an extent that one entire leg of the chassis, from front to back of the car, had to be replaced.
The write-up's followed by a half page piece on JC Restorations. There's talk of a Mustang in such a state that the only original steel left when they'd done was the roof.
Sounds like we're not the only ones taking on "impossible" projects & JC seem to be the restorers of choice.
There's also a write-up on a '68 Charger, brought in from San Diego, full of cobwebs & with the original green metallic bodywork covered in brown paint. It had bullet holes in the bootlid -shot from the
inside. The new owner used it just as it was as his wedding car. He calls it his Bullitt baddie car. Cool.
