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What he really needed was a road car, he decided. Something he could just jump in and drive, for more than a quarter of a mile at a time. A clear out of race car parts ensued, followed by a period of sitting back and waiting. He wisely kept hold of that Chevy engine though.

Love at first sight

Sid got wind of a car Steve Neimantas was importing from the States, a ’38 Chevy business coupe. Steve had scored the car as an unfinished project and, already having plenty of other car stuff going on, was thinking of moving it on. Encouraged by Steve and Bryan Whitfield’s description of the car, Sid did the deal before it even landed and collected it from the docks himself

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