Just Cool Cars: '62 Chevy is a tangerine dream
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. -- In the end, it's all about the paint job.
Yes, there are more than a few 1962 Chevrolet Bel Airs left in the world, but Bryan Egan's is something special. It's painted an iridescent orange ablaze in a sea of green flames.
"People either like the color, a pearl tangerine, or they don't," Egan says.
Egan, of course, loves it -- and it's easy to see why. They paint guarantees that the car that can't go anywhere without being noticed.
Egan, who brought his car to show here near his home on the Palos Verdes Peninsula south of Los Angeles, drove a tough bargain. The seller lived hundreds of miles away, but he got him to bring the car to Los Angeles.
"I said, 'I will buy it if you can get it,'" he recalls. The side benefit was that the long trip proved the car reliable.
The paint job has been on the car for 17 years now, and Egan still admires it. "It looks like a piece of glass," he says. Anyone who takes a look "admires the workmanhip. It has such long panels on it."