“I came across a beautiful, black, pillarless ’57,” Louis says. “Initially I thought it was a US-based car that someone was trying to sell here in Australia, until I saw the guy’s Australian mobile number in the ad. It must have been almost midnight when I rang him – we struck a deal within five minutes and the next day Damien ‘Chubby’ Lowe and I flew to Adelaide to inspect it.”
The car that greeted them was an honest base for a project, and everything a teenaged Louis had pined for. “The previous owner had done the paint and trim, and it had a Vortec crate motor in it,” he recalls. “Chubby and I cruised it an hour-and-a-half back to Jason Waye’s workshop in Adelaide, and it drove beautifully – it was almost too good to touch! I battled with the temptation for a few months, but I had to build the car I’d been envisaging for years.”
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