Toolbox TALES
SOMETIME in the early to mid-’70s, two potato-farming brothers from Coutts Island, near Christchurch, mounted a 427 Chevy, a TH-400 trans and a ’59 Pontiac station wagon rear end, into an otherwise stock ’39 Buick 4-door sedan, which originally had a straight-eight engine.
Said potato farmers, the Mundy Brothers, kept the Buick’s original dark green paint, leather interior, original gauges, hydraulic brakes, and stock ’39 wheels, hubcaps and whitewalls, creating what
