ost of us have dream cars, right, even if they don’t instantly come to mind. Chances are if you’re pressed you’ll be able to think of at least one car that you’d really love to own. For Auckland’s Kevin Watkins, that was always a ’69 Dodge Charger. As any Mopar fan will tell you though, Chargers aren’t exactly thick on the ground. That scarcity is somewhat directly linked to what made them so popular to begin with — , and . According to the internet, which we know never lies, 26 Chargers were wrecked in the first Dukes movie, 325 in the TV series, and who knows how many were destroyed through the Fast & Furious franchise? Maybe it was due to this that while Kevin had always wanted to own a ’69, he’d essentially given up on that dream, thinking it was now all but impossible. That didn’t stop him from owning and building some nice cars, such as his ’53 Chev pick-up that we featured in our last issue,
