What a great crew! Mitchell Saunders, Jennifer Stafford, Tom Stafford, Victor Hebert, Andrew Hale, Bill Cartwright, Lee Sweitzer, Chandler Holifield and AJ Schwichtenberg.
Hats off to Victor Hebert who did the final assembly on the "Rasnick" Chevelle.
“I have always wanted a ’70 Chevelle—big-block powered, of course. When I was a young high school kid, I remember seeing the guys with cool cars getting the cool girls, and that’s pretty much what got me interested in cars,” Joe laughingly says. “Today, it’s mainly about having the car I’ve always wanted.”
“When I was young, my grandmother had a 1967 Chevelle that I remember riding in many times as a young boy,” Mike reminisces. “When she was done with the car, it was handed down to my parents who drove it for a few years before passing the keys to me on my 16th birthday. The car was very used, slightly dented, and well broken in.”
"AJ has built and owned dozens of vintage Chevelles and found this one a few years back that a buddy of his was less than fond of, so he was selling it for a mere $1,500. Before it got in AJ’s hands, the prior shop deemed it unfixable—the rear quarters were welded in with a 1¾-inch difference in height on each side of the car and the driprails were cut off the wrong way. Being the owner of a hot rod shop had its perks–one being having the talented crew who can pretty much fix anything related to vintage cars; having so much experience with Chevelles made it even easier."
“Some of my earliest childhood memories include there always being an El Camino in our garage,” Dana Pruhs remembers. “We lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, and they were my father’s daily drivers, and over a 20-year period he had four of them and would replace them every four or five years.”
“So, when I asked him about the Chevy, he pretty much said that is was JUST a Chevy and wasn’t worth finishing. I knew in my heart that wasn’t the case and decided right there and then that I was going to buy the truck from him and do my best to restore it.”
"I’d have to say that this truck has the most amount of high quality parts on about any vehicle I’ve ever owned”, he says. “It looks good, it performs good, it stops good – I couldn’t be happier with how it came out.”
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