1955 Chevy 150 Sedan
“One day, I devised myself a plan That should be the envy of most any man I’d sneak it out of there in a lunch box in my hand Now gettin’ caught meant gettin’ fired But I figured I’d have it all by the time I retired I’d have me a car worth at least a hundred grand”
—Johnny Cash, “One Piece At A Time”
ohnny Cash’s iconic song “One Piece At A Time” is about a Cadillac built from parts he smuggled out in his lunch box from a Detroit GM assembly line until one day he’d have his $100,000 dream car. Though the final version wasn’t quite what the man in black envisioned, it meant so much more because he assembled it himself. While Memphis, Tennessee’s Shawn Brereton didn’t steal the parts for his dream car, he’s managed to build his ’55 Chevrolet 150 sedan one piece at a time over the 36 years he has owned
