A Customary Custom

Have You Ever Heard of a Family Tradition That Makes You Want to Build a Classic Car? This Man Did, and It Forced Him to Come Correct.

- Hector Leyva

Many of us tend to work better when we’re under the gun, and for Karl Ferazzi things are no different. In fact, the pressure of a nine-month deadline and a family tradition would give him the necessary inspiration to complete his dream car in time.

But completion of the car didn’t come without some hiccups. For starters, the challenge of acquiring his '59 Chevy Impala was a struggle in itself. He found the car sitting in an open field in Northern California, but getting the owner to part with it was a task in itself. After much pleading and negotiating, he was finally able to free the car from its barren landscape and from there it went from shop to shop dealing with every headache you could imagine. No one seemed to be able to bring his dreams to life, so it sat for years disassembled and nowhere near the condition he had picked it up in.