1959 Chrysler Imperial sedan turned into 2-seat sports car
The Imperial started as a four-door sedan, but owner Murray Pfaff had a different vision. "I saw there was a little sports car in there, we just had to cut it out of the other car," Pfaff says.
So that's what the 42-year-old Royal Oak. Mich., guy and 10 friends did in his two-car garage -- 10,000 hours of work over 3 1/2 years. "We chopped it in half five times, took 52 inches out of the whole length of the car, shortening it in five different places, then we narrowed the car 8 inches," Pfaff says.
Three inches were taken off the top of the car, turning the champagne-colored classic Chrysler into a two-seat convertible.
The car would be king: 
The turnaround comes a little more than a year after a steep drop-off in sales caused by the financial crisis forced GM and its smaller rival Chrysler LLC
