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    SILK PURSE

    Aug 14, 2019 4 minutes
    STORY BORIS VISKOVIC
    PHOTOS
    JORDAN LEIST

    THE number plate TEXAS PIG on Greg Freeman’s ’69 Camaro pretty much sums up the humble beginnings of this pro touring masterpiece – it was imported from Texas, and it was an absolute pig. “It was rooted. I blasted it and there was nothing left of it,” Greg confirms. “It had a 12-bolt in it and it looked reasonable, but it’s the first car I’ve ever bought without getting someone to go and look at it, and it came from a dealer. But as soon as I got it on the trailer I thought: ‘Oh my god.’ It was bolted together and that was about it.”

    It was a mess, but Greg was in a bit of a bind, as it

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