Question: When is a wagon like a coupe? When its a factory two-door. Thats what caught the eye of car dealer Kenny Merricks when he saw this rare 1960 wagon languishing on an auction lot in North Carolina. Sure, this oddball Brookwood is a bit deviant for your average grocery-getter, but Kenny was just getting started. As soon as he brought it home, he lowered the suspension and threw on a set of Rallys with some big and littles. His next step was to swap out the stock six with a Chevy 350, backed up by a 700-R tranny. Then Bill Daniels of Elite Restorations in Danville, Va., put in a late-model Camaro radiator and modified the frame to accept Z28 power steering. The body was fairly straight, so it was simply striped, stripped, and sprayed.

Kennys brother John laid the graphics, and after the paint and body were done, the Rallys were replaced by a set of polished Americans with BFG rubber (215/65-15 front and 255/70-15 rear). Kenny dressed up the interior himself with light gray vinyl, and added an eight-speaker, 450-watt Alpine CD system with two 12-inch subwoofers. To finish things off, he tinted the windows and lowered the suspension two more inches. Its still a daily driver, though, and everybody asks about the missing rear doors. Kenny just smiles and says its all original sheetmetal.