SHOW ME THE MONEY

This tough 1937 Chev gasser was completed in the spare time of a bunch of mates after they first helped finish fellow club member Jock McGilvray’s 1948 Chevrolet pickup when he became too ill to complete it. Sadly, Jock passed away in November last year but not before he was able to drive the pickup a handful of times thanks to the team’s hard work. That work wasn’t un-rewarded though, as Ophy explains: “Jock told me, ‘That motor has to stay with the car, and you boys have fun with it’. I’ve always owned the car, but, before he passed away, Jock came and saw me and said that [that] motor is staying with it. In a way, he did give it to me, but then, in a way, it’s sort of all of ours, and I didn’t want to take sole ownership of it.”

A long-time member of Downtown Rod and Custom Club, Jock was a relatively recent member of Lurkers Car Club in Invercargill, only joining the club some two years ago. Ophy is the club president, and his gasser joins the growing ranks of this class in the South Island.