“My brother and his friends built and reworked their cars, so that got me interested, too,” Don Silaff remembers. “At 18, I bought my sister’s 1954 Chevy two-door Bel Air and started to make it mine. I rebuilt the 235 six-cylinder and added dual exhaust, lowered it, and painted it gold with a touch of lime, painted the wheels black, and added baby Moons.”
That’s the short version on how Don’s wheels began to spin in the car world. Being a “car guy” for over 57 years, the Nevada, Texas, resident has owned a 1937 Ford convertible (2014-2015 Goodguys Builder’s Choice award at Texas Motor Speedway), the aforementioned 1954 Chevy, and he bought a new 1967 GTO, which he sold rather abruptly due to being drafted in 1968–an unfortunate situation…