Once he got started restoring and updating his 1953 Chevrolet pickup, Don Boxx never really found a good place to stop.
So he just kept going.
By the time the dust, sparks and paint mist had settled, Boxx was driving out of Fast Freddie’s Rod Shop in Eau Claire, Wis., behind the wheel of the most wicked-cool pickup he had ever seen. With a stealth two-tone gun metal gray paint job, custom touches and fabrication at every turn, and a new cat-quick 450-plus-hp GM LS3 engine under the hood, the truck Boxx affectionately named “Otis” is a truly lovable and fascinating beast.
“If I would have known what kind of money I was going to put it in and what we were going to wind up doing to it, I probably would have had sticker shock,” laughs Boxx, a resident of Kenosha, Wis. “But it was just an evolution and as we made a decision each step of the way the costs were justified. It was kind of like bracket creep. We said, ‘Well, we were gonna do this, but for a few more bucks we can do that.’ It just sort of evolved.”
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