As a follow on to the previous blog entry titled “The Chevelle Build Begins,” this week’s blog post is a photo documentary courtesy Jeff Allison at Allison Customs. He’s got the teardown of the Chevelle completely done now and has done the initial inspection. The good news is that I didn’t lie to him in […]

As I wrote last week, the Chevelle Build with Allison Customs is officially underway!  On Friday March 25 by brother in law Greg and I loaded the Chevelle up on a friends trailer, hooked it to the back Greg’s F-250 Powerstroke, and began the 2240 mile road trip from Ames, IA to Bloomfield, NM and […]

For the longest time I’ve always wanted to redo my Chevelle. My dad and I had restored it when I was a high school kid, and while it’s a good “20 foot” car it’s always had it’s issues.  First off, we began with the worst shape car to restore that I’d ever seen. It was […]

I had a chance recently to interview Richard Petty himself for an upcoming podcast show, and I’ll admit that it was one of the few interviews I was actually a little nervous about beforehand. I’ve been really fortunate to interview some important people in the industry related to muscle cars, but Richard is clearly the […]

When I was in high school in the early 90’s I was the default “car guy” in my group of peers. This is probably attributed to the fact that: 1) I loved cars and talked about them all of the time, and 2) I actually had a car. Most of my friends either used a […]