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Chrome Dreams; Auto restoration is a business of dreams-but you pay a price for perfection.(Revs)

AutoWeek,  November, 2006  

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Byline: Ken Gross Depression-era survivors, the Greatest Generation, even baby boomers-we all lust for cars that are long out of production. Maybe it was your first car, or one you wanted but couldn't afford. Perhaps you've already found your dream car, but, especially if it's 40 to 50 years old, it's likely to have been ridden hard and put away wet one too many times.

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Parts might be missing; rust is lurking under worn and blistered paint; maybe it hasn't run for years... Looking at an old clunker, most of us see a hopeless task, a lost cause on wheels. But when a bedazzled, ...

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