Episode 1: The Yellow Car — Our 1984 Corvette Widebody Build Begins

Every build starts with a car nobody else wanted.

This is our 1984 Corvette the day it came home to King City, Ontario — yellow, tired, the seats worn through, and exactly what we were looking for. Most people saw a parts car. We saw the widebody hiding underneath.

Over this series, that yellow car gets a widebody drawn out in cardboard, hand-laid fiberglass, weeks of sanding, and a gold-and-candy-red paint job. Episode 1 tells how it started:

Watch Episode 1: The Yellow Car on YouTube

Episode 2 — Cardboard & Courage — is next: the templates go on the car and the widebody starts to take shape.

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Would you have taken this one on? Tell us in the video comments.