We started this custom 1969 Buick GS400 project with a customer supplied vehicle. Crown Customs was tasked with bringing this car back to life with a full custom restomod build. Specs for this custom include a custom Roadster Shop chassis, a new Chevrolet Performance LS3, and custom interior. The customer’s vision is to retain as much of the original aesthetics…
Crown Concepts was tasked to build a completely custom off-road capable resto-mod from an original 1961 Willy Jeep Truck. We started with a completely stock 1961 Willys Jeep truck that did run and drive and had all of the original equipment. This truck was not in bad condition to start with but had been neglected for some years prior to…
The first Crown ‘Cars and Coffee’ Event of 2021 Saturday February 6th marked our first event of the new year. After taking a break for a few months due to the Christmas and New Year holidays, we are back. Tucson’s fastest growing ‘Cars and Coffee’ event happens on the first Saturday of each month. Our event is free and open…
As we move forward with this 1968 GT500 resto-mod, we have hit another milestone in this build. Seeing the car in fresh Candy Apple red paint with white Le Mans stripes makes you feel a certain type of way. You can start to imagine what this car might have looked like leaving the Shelby/Ford assembly line in 1968. An image…
Crown Concepts is a Superformance dealer and installer. We just finished two new Superformance MKIII Cobra builds this week for a customer. As an authorized Superformance dealer and installer, we are able to build the MKIII Cobra, GT40 and Corvette Grand Sport. Superformance is one of the top vintage replica manufactures today and the attention to detail and accuracy is…
We spent Saturday at Apex Motor Club servicing our Radical racing customers. This event includes a qualification round and 20 minute race. We are there to support our customers and their cars with tires, air pressure, fuel, etc. The day also included some open lap sessions for other Apex members and a GT series race. There were a lot of…
We have been very busy working on the Shelby GT500 restoration, but we have another restomod project going on that we would like to share with you as well. We have been working on this 1955 Chevrolet Bel air restoration for a few months. This car originally came to us as a complete running car. After discovering that certain details…
When the customer delivered this 1968 Shelby GT500 to our shop we did not know what to expect (read this blog post). It took a few weeks of disassembly and cataloguing all the parts, nuts and bolts, but we got the car stripped down to its body. During disassembly and sandblasting we found a lot of issues that needed to…
