Bad Rat, or Kickin’ Chicken?
This story begins with an unusual set of circumstances. The Seward family had a 1962 Chrysler Newport in an old wooden chicken shed on their property in Somerset, and for year after year they left it there. Charlie Seward grew up knowing about it – his father took the car as payment for a debt back in 1992, when Charlie was a toddler. Yet car-mad Charlie, who grew up around classics and started his own restoration business in 2014, never touched it until last year.
“I WAS PONDERING A FULL RESTO-MOD REBUILD OF THE MECHANICALS TO INCLUDE A HELLCAT ENGINE...”
If you’re wondering why, and thinking how you would have been pouring fresh petrol into the tank the moment your provisional licence landed on the doormat when you were 17, we need to explain. Or rather we’ll leave it to
