Mike's Street Rod

This car was a dream of Mike's since he was sixteen.  He built his first car when he was a teenager and has built several since then, but this one is his most recent.  I can't even imagine building a car out of cardboard, so the very idea of building one from parts is mind-boggling. 

After he built it custom designed the interior, he had the body painted with many coats of metallic orange and silver--so  it shines. 

The body is a 1951 Chevrolet Belair hardtop on a 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo chassis.  The grille comes from a 1957 Corvette, the light-up hood ornament from a 1951 Pontiac, and the tail lights from a 1959 Cadillac.  

The hubcaps come from a 1959 Dodge Lancer and the custom bucket interior includes a 1960 Impala steering wheel. 

Here you have a man who gets up every morning excited about a day of working on his projects--building a car or adding pieces and new buildings to his Brown Mule Farm.  If anyone is traveling through North Georgia and wants a great big taste of the Fifties, you should visit the Brown Mule Farm. 

He built this beautiful Shell station before the barn.
Inside, there's a barber shop, a soda fountain, working jukeboxes,
and all kinds of Fifties memorabilia.

Here I am, sitting on a "sofa" he made out of another old car.