Styling

Hannes Meyer has always had a love of cars.

When he was a child, he used to love drawing them and making modifications to the cars he drew. Anything American, V8 and Classic has always struck a chord in his heart. His biggest dream was to own a vintage vehicle and modify it according to his own ideas. The same way in which he depicted it in the drawings he had produced when he was younger.

This particular car is one of his dream cars however, his ultimate would be a 1963/64 Chevy Corvette.

This build started as an empty shell that Hannes purchased from a friend who is based in Uitenhage. At that time the friend was a collector who made the decision to sell everything. The deal was to buy all 12 vehicles and all the parts. Hannes could not let the opportunity go and a deal was struck.

The original plan was to build a car that he could drive “like it had been stolen”. It had to be fast and have plenty of horsepower. The plan was to have it look like a standard 1938 Chevrolet 4 door sedan but with a high-powered engine, power steering, modern gearbox etc.