In the late 1960s, Don Helmrich, his brother Ed and their father Henry took note of the rise of the fiberglass-bodied dune buggy and decided to try their own hand at building a fiberglass body to fit on a Volkswagen tub. But instead of designing yet another Meyers knockoff, they went in a different direction.
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While most customs don’t require a 12-year build period, this 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air for sale on Hemmings.com was built less according to the owner’s whims and more as a tribute to Moonglow, Duane Steck’s 1954 Chevrolet show car that made the cover of Car Craft in 1957, then was allegedly crushed sometime in the […]

Here’s what happens when you do a little cleaning over the weekend. Now that my storage area in my garage is nearly complete – and another step closer to user friendly – I began sifting through some of the boxes that have been migrating in from other regions of the Northeast. In other words, my […]