Modern Rodding

1955 Chevy ’Vert

t takes a brave soul to purchase a hot rod sight unseen. Yet when it’s from a friend you trust you willingly take the leap. Steve Spang of Minnesota had been looking for a ’55 or ’56 Chevy Bel Air convertible for some time when he found a ’66 Nova and couldn’t pass it up. Fast-forward a few years when a church friend told him of a stalled project that had been in the works for 15 years and it looked like it wouldn’t get finished. It was a ’55 Chevy Bel Air convertible that had been in storage and showed 54,000 miles

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