[Greg Reimer 7376]

Back in the day when I built my first Chevelle,it was a $500 roller (these don't exist today),and it had a lot wrong with it. I had a bent 69 front bumper,a 69 grille,numerous trim and moldings were missing,no front seat,but the body was near perfect and the glass was all good.I dismantled it, did a firewall forward disassembly and rebuild of the front end and steering,and immersed myself in catalogs from OPG and Muscle Factory and learned that 68 Chevelles did'nt have near the parts availability that 66-67's and 69-72's did.I built the rear end and got it under the car and put the sheet metal on the front,and took it to my buddy's shop for paint. He needed an engine for his truck,so we traded jobs-the paint for the engine.I put all new rubber moldings and weatherstrips on it and new parts as necessary-one of the last NOS grilles OPG had before they were discontinued.This race car started as a restoration project before we could even consider racing it.I made sure it was correct because it was just as easy to assemble a correct car as an incorrect one. I also heard nightmare tales like Dwight just described in tech and didn't want the drama. I had that car a long time and built three more just about like it.I never had an issue in tech at any race,Travis teched me at the first WInternationals it went to, Bruce has teched us since then,and I think they realized that an effort had been made to try to be accurate,rather than an effort to try to see what we could get away with.