Although Stratford, New Zealand, with a population just shy of 10,000, isn’t exactly known as the custom car capital of the country, that hasn’t stopped this month’s feature car owner, Todd Holland, from building a thriving custom car and automotive repair business in the town.
The story of how Todd came to be in possession of his Monte Carlo starts with his company working alongside a company called Treo Motors Ltd, which imports a bunch of American classics with the intention to sell, and any that get flagged at the border for rust or structural repairs go to to Todd at RE Automotive for the work to be carried out. When Treo Motors did another haul of cars from the States, a few were flagged at the border — the Monte Carlo included — and that saw Todd with an abundance of work to get them back in shape and fit for the roads
