This super clean Chevy truck is owned by Johnny Golden of Pickens, South Carolina, and it loves living in the country. This truck was purchased new by Johnny’s father in 1972 for use on the family farm, but that doesn’t mean it was treated like just another farm truck. This truck found itself in the promised land with its new owner. It got washed and waxed on a regular basis; no cow manure stayed on this truck for long. This old farm truck had it really good, shoot, it was even garage kept, not like its country cousins that sat out in the yard everyday. Heck, this truck had an owner that loved it so much that he put mag wheels and dual exhaust on it. A very sad day arrived in 1989 when Johnny’s father passed away, and the truck mourned the passing of its dear old friend. The truck found a new home with Johnny who drove it for 6 or 7 years, taking care of it just like his father had. The day did arrive when Johnny made the decision to freshen up the truck a little with the help of Jim Keith who was ready to help a friend out. Before Johnny knew it, the truck was in a gazillion pieces that would take close to 3 years of work to put back together better than new.

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This awesome example of Mopar muscle is owned by Rich and Cindy Purdie of Melbourne, Florida, but it didn’t always look so show worthy. Their 1968 Dodge Charger started out as a very sad, old, and tired looking piece of muscle car history. The worn-out car came out of Springfield, Missouri in December of 2013 with Rich’s game plan being to build something really different. His first step in the right direction was to get with artist extraordinaire Eric Brockmeyer to come up with one of his fantastic renderings. Rich and Eric worked closely together and came up with the car design that would ultimately be what you see here. The interior design Eric came up with was spot on with some minor changes to the original dash design. In March of 2014 with the rendering complete, the decision was made to ship the Charger to the Muscle Rod Shop in San Antonio where they specialize in building custom wide-bodies.

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When Angelo Vespi of St. Augustine, Florida started out building this 1967 Chevrolet C10, he had really good intentions of building just a really great driver. But we have already seen what rolls out of his shop after he gets done with a build. Case in point look – at the Camaro he debuted at the 2014 SEMA Show that won the Battle of the Builders. While at the SEMA Show he was gathering ideas of the direction that he wanted his next build to go, and the more ideas he gathered, the more radical the build was going to become, and here you see the results.

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My article title is not quite what the Beach Boys came out with in 1962 about a 409 powered car, but just about all of the rest of the lyrics apply to this awesome car. Arna Smithson of Woodbury, Tennessee owns this bad ass 1962 Impala SS; a very fitting tribute to that classic oldie song. This is not the first ‘62 Impala SS Arna has owned; he actually owned one back in the day when he and his wife, Teena, were dating. Teena actually learned to drive in his first Impala SS that was 409 powered and 4-speed equipped. Many years went by as the now husband and wife owned numerous vehicles that competed on many levels including ISCA. When Arna sold his last show vehicle, Teena suggested that it might be time to look at getting another ‘62 SS Impala like the one from way back when. A short time later just such a car was found by them and purchased with the intention of it being just a cruiser. Looking at the car in these photos you can tell just how well that plan went… not at all.

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