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Extreme Makeover: Car Edition
Maryland Muscle Car Restores Classic Autos to Their Rightful Glory.
by Todd McElwee + photos by Jamie Turner
• • •
Zaman
Khan’s 1968 Oldsmobile 442 convertible sits in the corner of Maryland
Muscle Car’s Virginia Avenue shop. The vehicle has no interior, and its
V8 power plant is hanging from a lift on the other side of the garage.
It doesn’t look like much now, but give MMC’s skilled staff a bit of
time to work its magic, and the Olds will once again be turning heads
and rattling windows wherever it goes.
The cars arrive in
every imaginable condition. Some retain much of their original luster,
requiring only minor tweaking to be street ready. Others are delivered
to MMC as rusty shells of their former selves and spend extended
periods of time in the garage before returning to the pavement. “It’s
gratifying to see the before and after products,” MMC co-owner Jeff
Smith says. “We’re all car guys, and we all enjoy what we’re doing.
Every day is a challenge and every day is something different.”
Zaman’s
442 was delivered to the shop on the back of a flatbed truck last
spring, plagued by rust and a dormant motor. Many would have written
the classic piece of Detroit muscle off as hopeless. “The condition was
horrid,” says Zaman, who owned a 1968 442 as a teenager. “From the
outside it was a great car to look at from maybe 20 feet away. There
were things that they showed me that I didn’t even know. It was really
a rust bucket.” But MMC — a full-service shop encompassing a highly
skilled staff of automotive artisans — was up to the task. Nearly all
of the work on the Olds was completed in house. Only the painting,
powder coating and upholstery duties were subcontracted out. “A lot of
people are afraid of that,” MMC co-owner Rick Kelbaugh says of taking
on cars that look hopeless. “But we can see the end result. That comes
with a lot of experience.”
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