Photos by the author. In the late 80s, I had the distinct displeasure of seeing a very nicely kept Opel GT meet its likely end. The GT lost a ball joint and the driver’s side front wheel came off at ...
The Apollo’s newly reupholstered back seat. Story and photos by Joe Essid. Whatever your personal experience with back seats (please do not give us TMI in the comments) restoring that part of a vinta...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. For a full year, I’ve hit the sort of snag that can bedevil any restoration project. Usually these delays and frustrations occur at someone else’s shop during an interm...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. A year after buying my 1974 Buick, and half a year after getting it back on the road, the old Apollo wears not 50, but three shades of gray primer and still sports an i...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. The last time we talked, I set priorities for the mechanical work on a 1974 Buick Apollo, the same year and model of my first car. For those novices to restoration, I h...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In the first two parts of Project Apollo, I discussed finding, buying, and shipping my vintage car. That part of the story had largely been out of my hands, but once th...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In part one, I looked at the reasons I decided to hunt down a rather mundane car from the Malaise Era, a ’74 Buick Apollo coupe that had features my first car, also a ’...