1970 Chevy Chevelle: A Cinderalla in the Making

5-Star Scotty has been wanting a fix-up muscle car for almost as long as I've known him. He had his first fully restored, street legal, ten-point-five second Chevelle when he was a teenager. He built his own engine in the basement of his house, and with the help of a dozen neighborhood boys, carried it upstairs when it was finished. "No one wanted to race me for pink slips," he said. That means that his car was so fast off the block that no one dared to race him for titles to their cars because they all knew his 1967 Chevelle could toast them.

Yesterday, we drove up north to look at a Chevelle that had been sitting in the owner's garage for the last seven years. 

This model Chevelle is the last of the double head lights. That, in 5-Star's opinion, is what makes her body design extra special.

Right now, she doesn't have a motor...

She doesn't have a backseat... And, no, those are not the front seats that go with the car!

She doesn't even have a trunk!

Much less, upholstery...

In fact, the car is temporarily sitting on pizza cutters for tires while she waits to be fitted for these donut shaped tubs of rubber!

To the drivers who live by instant gratification, to those who are close-minded and afraid to get a little grease under their fingernails, this car, as she sits, is merely a heap of scrap metal. But to 5-Star, and to the gentleman who babied this Chevelle for the last seven years, she is the coveted 1970 Chevrolet big block Chevelle that is a Cinderella in the making.

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