BROWN Sugar 2.0

What do you do when your show car has won just about every award going? If you’re Kevin Villa, you rip it apart and rebuild it, but even wilder!

Words: Mark Walker

’57 OVAL RAGTOP When I first saw Kevin’s Villa’s car at European Bug-In in 2019, it was a standout in terms of the level of detail. And that’s saying something when you consider the number of show cars that head to Belgium for that event that are built to an incredibly high standard. However, Kevin had gone the extra mile and displayed his car with its wheels off, as people were more prone to do in the 1980s, and everywhere you looked, it was flawless. I’m only sorry I didn’t take more pics of it than I did back then, so I could better understand all the changes he’s made since. Kevin bought the ’57 in 2010 and, by 2015, had rebuilt in its first incarnation, which he called Chocolated…

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VolksWorld (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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