Chasers © - Our History

Our History

A Bird in the Hand...Our Story

Below is the story on how Chasers got its start. Our story starts with the recovery of "Christine", my 1977 Trans-Am I sold in 1995.

This is a photo of "Christine" in the spot we found her in 2007

The hunt for "Christine" began one Friday in 2007 with a phone call to the Classic Car Restoration Shop, where I had sold her 12 years earlier. Over the years, there were a couple of cars that I wish I would have kept. She was one of those cars. At that time I sold her, I was about to move and I knew I had nowhere to store her and no time or money to finish her.

When I sold "Christine", she had a clean black interior, her original paint job (Buccaneer Red), as well as, the original Trans-Am stickers including the bird on the hood. I put the only dent in her when we loaded it for the Classic Car Restoration Shop.

When I talked to the shop owner, on the phone, he had found the title, but he thought that I was about three years too late, because he remembered crushing it. He went on to say he had more to choose from though and he would make me a great deal because he knew I would fix one up. Disappointed in the news that my car was crushed, I took my two boys the next day and headed over to take a look anyway.

We went deep in the woods to where he described another red Trans-Am. It was not the year I wanted but, I found her old Trans-Am’s fender sitting in front of it. I took a picture and thought that was the only thing left.

My old fender, which was the first clue she was still there

I told my boys that was my old fender. We had passed another red F-body car on the way in next to a blue Formula. I thought that couldn’t be her because the shop owner had said my car was crushed. I had taken a picture of it on the way in anyway. Later that day, as we walked around, something drew my back to that deteriorated car. I looked at it harder this time. I remembered that she had the original door molding and some metal mud flaps on the rear tires. This car was in rough shape. Here I am looking at a shell with a busted windshield, no front cap, no interior and no trunk. I made my way around the back and noticed two Thrush stickers and a local radio station sticker. I remembered that my old car had those stickers on its bumper. It is funny what you remember. This had to be my car! I called the shop owner and asked him to check the title and compare it to the VIN.

I got the call from him the next day. Yes, it was "Christine"! He said it was still in my name since he had turned it into a parts car. A friend and I picked her up the following week. My youngest son Mason and I cleaned a spot in the shop a few days before her arrival.

Just a few weeks after we brought her home, God spared me in a horrible car wreck. The wreck fractured two vertebras in my neck. Once I started to become more limber, I started to call old contacts and search for parts for my son’s car since I had a lot of free time during my long recovery. As I searched I realized just how time consuming and hard getting parts for those cars had become and Chasers © was born. The rest is history.

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