Month: August 2023

1939 Chevy 5-window Coupe now the Red Master (formerly the Pink Lady)

Marius Ackermann, a hot rodder and petrolhead from Kimberley, purchased a 1938 Chevy 5-window Coupe project to build a fat-fendered rod. However, the car had been butchered by the previous owner and Marius was looking for a donor 38 or 39 to supply replacement body parts for the 38 as they share 90% of parts with the 39 (being a facelift model of the 38). In the December 2011/Jan 2012 issue of SA HotRods Kakpraat column, he spotted a photo of the accident damaged Pink Lady 39 Master Coupe belonging to Andre van Rooyen, originally built and owned by Johnny Kotze. 
 

Jannie Viljoen is a experienced Rodder with years of building what ever he could find from Lotus 7 to bikes.  My previous build was a 2JZ powered Lada Niva and because of the power and reliability of that iconic engine, this featured build also started off with the same engine.  Since as far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to own a 1934 Chevrolet sedan explains Jannie. However, I always struggled to get his hands on one. One morning, four and half years ago, a good friend and customer of Jannie told him about an advert he saw in the Junk Mail. 

When Greg Parton stumbled across a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro RS in 2007, it was a shadow of its former self. The canary-yellow muscle car had seen better days and needed a full strip-down, the kind of restoration that starts with bare metal and imagination. For Greg, that was never a deterrent—it was an opportunity.