COUNTER-INTUITIVE CUSTOM
Starting with one of the most readily available cars may seem like an interesting choice when the goal is to build something unique — in fact, from the outside, buying a car to change as much of it as possible seems like an inherently flawed plan, as, surely, it’d be a whole lot easier simply to buy a car that you liked to begin with. However, as the owner of this radical 1956 Chev Bel Air points out, where would the fun be in that?!
When you compare the car that John Nightingale started building around three years ago with the one that he and wife Karen are behind the wheel of now, it’s clear that John’s idea of fun involves spending plenty of hours in the shed. He’s not the type of bloke simply to admire a car and come up with a plan for it; he’s a hands-on guy who’d prefer to work
