THE first item I have to make very clear is that this is Catherine's car, or as she's known around here, “Chippie”. Hence the personalised plate CHPS57. (Although the '57 is slowly morphing into ''our car“) Secondly, it is a '57 Chevrolet Townsman station wagon with Bel Air stainless trim added. Thirdly, husband Geordie did 98% of the build. So that's all the “fine print” sorted.
In 1995, while working at Eagle Automotive, doing right-hand drive conversions, Geordie received a call from his boss, Willy “the Chief” Roach, who was in the States on a buying trip. Willy had found a nice
