Born Again

A Second Chance Yields a Major Payoff.

- Mike Self

COMING UP WITH TITLES FOR FEATURES CAN BE DAUNTING. Sometimes we luck out and the owner already has an awesome name for their truck, and sometimes the perfect title just pops out at you.

Most often, though, there’s something about the truck’s story that lays the foundation for a title. We’d like to think that we hit the mark more often than not, and at the very least we hope that we are giving proper respect to all of the hard work that builders put into their trucks. While at first glance the title of this feature might seem religious, it’s not, but it is accurate.

Mike Amborn of Vancouver, Washington, had big dreams for a ’63 Chevy C-10 he came across in 2012. It was a forgotten shop truck that some would have passed on, but Mike could see the potential and ended up striking a deal for what was left of it. After collecting body parts and rebuilding a Chevy small-block and 700R4, Mike was equipped to begin the project, much of which he tackled on his own. Mike did as much as he could in his own garage, including ’bagging the truck. When the first round of mods was completed in early 2013, he sent it off to a friend’s body shop for the second phase of the build.