The Chevelle Heads For Body And Paint With Street Metal Concepts....and Rob And Dad Drive 4500 Miles!

Well, if you've been following the Chevelle adventures as of late, the topic of this podcast show will come as no surprise to you. Since our last episode the Chevelle has successfully left Allison Customs in New Mexico and has been delivered to Street Metal Concepts in Longwood, FL (Orlando area) for final finish metal work and the full body and paint treatment!

While I'll let the pictures below and the podcast show itself tell the bulk of the story of why we chose to go on this crazy adventure, the short-short-short version can be summed up as follows:

1) Our goal of completing paint and body in New Mexico with our time (and budget) constraints to get the Chevelle done for the SEMA show in November were shot. We needed a miracle.

2) I called my friend Danny Giustino, owner of Muscle Express in Jupiter, FL for advice. He knew that we needed access to a show-class paint and body shop that would not only take on the crazy job, but would do it in our time and budget window. He knew just what to do.

3) Danny put me in touch with Zip Simons and Don Endonino, owners of a new paint and body shop in Longwood, FL called Street Metal Concepts. Both Don and Zip have 20 years experience (each) in the industry and had decided a few months ago to go into business together building dream cars. Each had built their own personal cars and were the real deal...