Fuel Curve Top 10 of 2022 – #5 Don and Jackie Heidt’s 1952 Pontiac Chieftain

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#5 Don and Jackie Heidt’s 1952 Pontiac Chieftain

One easy way to stand out in the hot rod and custom car crowd is to build something other than a common Ford or Chevy. Another way is to have your car built by a shop with a distinctive and definitive style. Don and Jackie Heidt did both when they had Kindig-It Design build their custom 1952 Pontiac Chieftain convertible.

A longtime GM fan, Don jumped at the chance to buy the drop-top Pontiac two decades ago, though it languished in his shop as a “someday” project for years while Don got other projects on the road. A chance meeting with Dave Kindig at the Colorado Nationals led to a series of conversations that ultimately saw the Pontiac being built at Kindig-It, right as the shop’s star ascended with the beginning of the Bitchin’ Rides TV show.

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A lifelong car kid, Steven grew up around drag strips – his name may sound familiar because his grandfather is Bob Bunker, a Pro Mod pioneer who piloted the “Folsom Flash” ’55 Chevy from the ’70s through the ’90s. Steven’s father, Bob Bunker Jr., heads up Bunker Motorsports and is a regular in the West Coast racing scene, building chassis and race cars for more than 30 years. With genetics like that, it’s no wonder Steven has a passion for both cars and motorsports. In addition to helping his father and honing his fabrication skills at Bunker Motorsports, Steven began shooting photos at the drag strip and capturing the action with his Canon camera. He is now artfully crafting stories around the awesome machines at the shows, as well as the men and women behind them. When he's is not on the road covering events, he spends his downtime out on the water fishing, building his 1962 Chevy Nova, or cruising his 1987 GMC Suburban.

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