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Classic Car Restoration Club wants you to share your story with us. If you have a classic car, what has your experience been restoring the car? How did you find your first classic? We would like to share your story with the rest of the Classic Car Restoration Club community. Send your story to marksimpson.design@gmail.com and make sure to include some photos. Read some of the great stories submitted by our members and visitors.

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Looking for a project F-100

Reflecting back on my life I found myself reminiscing about the times spent in a garage with friends working on my 1971 Datsun 510 and 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle. Both cars... View Content

Long-Time GTO Affair

I purchased my first car a 1966 Pontiac GTO in May of 1968, and never parted with it. After enjoying the car for years, I performed a frame off restoration... View Content

Father/Son Malibu

When I was younger I used to race, legally and illegally, in the N.Y. / N.J. area. I made some money and won quite a few trophies at the track.... View Content

My First and Only Classic Car?

I got into the car hobby in the 80 s with my late brother John. It started by going to local car and cruise nights and elevated from there. John... View Content

The Queen of Oklahoma

This photo is of my 1973 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, taken on Rt. 66 in Oklahoma. She was originally purchased by Vogue Magazine in London and made it to America... View Content

Love of Fastback Mustangs

I grew up building model cars, like so many kids, and dreamed of the first time I might be able to buy my own car. My dad was not supportive... View Content

Moparian Power Couple

In 1996, I was dating a guy who had a ‘73 Charger SE sitting dormant in his driveway. When I went to his house for the first time, it was... View Content

Treasure Hidden Under a Tarp

In 1982, I went to Pittsburgh, from Eastern Long Island, to look at a 1949 Mercury and it was not a successful adventure. The car was misrepresented. My friend and... View Content

Saved by a Creeper

I was pinned under the front of my 1969 Ford Galaxie, when I accidently knocked her out of gear, while underneath changing oil..... the back-end of the car went over... View Content

From Flatheads to Mustangs to MGB’s

I rebuilt my first engine – a flathead V-8 on a 1949 Ford in 1959 when I was 15 years old. I drove that car for five years, then selling... View Content

Scratch-Built 1933 Hot Rod

In 2016, I had just finished a shop upgrade. My previous shop was just big enough to irritate me during use, and well, do you really need another reason for... View Content

A passion for Buick Riviera’s

I began driving the Buick Riviera in 1995 when the first Riviera #8 generation last year of the Buick luxury sport coupe Riviera. Here are just a couple of the... View Content

A Father's C10 Tribute

I bought a 1981 Chevrolet C10 short box pickup, after my son died. He had one like it, and I wanted to build a tribute truck to memorial his life.... View Content

Junk It or Restore It?

I am the proud owner of a 1959 Chevrolet Impala 4-door Sport Sedan. This car is 100% 1959 and has not been modified in any way. Any aftermarket parts are... View Content

My 5,025 pound Family Heirloom

This past May marks the “Golden Anniversary” plus eight (8) years of my association with this vehicle; my late father (Ernst Bernard Wolken) acquired it from my great uncle’s estate... View Content

1969 Road Runner Reunion

I had a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner, and one of my objectives in classic car ownership is to find the ownership history trail of the cars I own. This Road... View Content

1956 Chevy Returns Home

In 1981 I purchased a 1956 Chevy Bel Air 2-door Sedan. The main reason I bought this car was because the green 56 I had was undergoing a frame-off restoration... View Content

Grain Hauler Hits the Road Again

I have a 1935 Chevrolet Master 1-ton truck that my grandfather bought new in 1935. It hauled grain 5-miles back-and-forth to the local elevator until 1967 when my father replaced... View Content

Completing the Dream

About 47-years ago my teenage son bought a 1948 Dodge coupe. He never did anything with it. He dragged this old bird all over the place but seldom was serious... View Content

“Studepox” there is No Cure

I grew up on a farm in Montana. I do not know why but my father was a Studebaker man, tried and true. We had big trucks and pickups as... View Content

Return of the Muscle Car

I am a 70-year old who grew up with muscle cars. In 1969 I had a 1967 GTO. In 1970 I had a 69 Indy Pacesetter SS Camaro & a... View Content

Shell Shocked 1956 Chevy

I traded a 1964 Malibu in 1988 for a 1956 Chevy Bel Air. I worked on it for two years and just when it was done, I got called up... View Content

Dream Car Barn Find

I was looking around in internet a few years back , and I noticed an advertisement for a 1968 American Motors Corporation AMX. It was a barn find and appeared... View Content

I am 66-years-old, I traded my nephew for the 1966 Chevrolet Caprice, he didn’t know how to work on it so he got my 1986 4-wheel drive Chevrolet Blazer and... View Content