British iron might not be the focus of this site, but there’s a shop in Minneapolis that has such a treasure trove of teeny tiny vintage vehicles, parts and paraphernalia from across the pond that it just can’t be ignored.
When Doug Boettcher first met Doreen in October of 1989, he wasn’t shy about his hobby.
“He said, ‘Do you like street rodding?’ And I said, ‘Is that a band?’ I had no idea,” Doreen recalled.
If anyone has given up on the idea of building a gas-guzzling, tire-shredding muscle car in this age of four-buck-a-gallon gas, it isn’t Chuck Chenvert.
Yes, it’s a 1970 Monte Carlo convertible. No, Chevrolet never made one – Pete Emeott did, in his St. Paul garage.