MORE than $500,000 and a lot of care went into transforming an old Chevy Sedan into a “brutally sexy” mobile. Chad Martin has been turning heads with his custom ’36 Chevy Master Sedan which he and his staff at Chad’s Custom Dreams in Saluda, South Carolina restored. The team at the auto shop began work on the stunning design in 2016, spending two years transforming the old Sedan into a sleek 750hp beast. Chad said: “What makes this car so special is I got to dream it up, design it, build it, paint it and see it all the way through. You can’t get much better than that, to build your dream. The reactions I get are awesome.” The creation now boasts a 24 valve twin-turbo Cummins diesel engine, whIle the entire body has been handmade out of steel. Inside, there’s a leather interior and the gearshift is adorned with a caricature of Chad’s wife – the inspiration behind the car’s “brutally sexy” nickname. Chad said: “I wanted to come up with a cool name and sometimes my wife’s mean to me and she’s pretty so ‘brutally sexy’ is the way the truck works out.” And while the finished product is truly impressive, it took a lot of work to get there. “It started as a '36 Chevrolet sedan, turned into a four-door Chevrolet Dewey,” explained Chad. “I cut the whole back off, turned the cab into a truck cab, then cut it down the middle in half. I then widened it a foot and built the front end, the back end, and started making everything look like a truck. Everything’s custom-made from there.”
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