Vintage: Our StoryChau on the truck, the pivot, and why you should follow the thing you cannot stop thinking about
It started withone bad truck.
Chau Nguyen had owned more than fifty modern cars. The fifty-first was a 1970 classic. It leaked, it rattled, and it would not start. It also would not leave him alone.
The same lines. Nothing else in common.
The truck on the left is where we began: a restoration candidate with sixty years of fatigue in every joint. The truck on the right is what we build now: the same silhouette over a 2026 chassis. Drag to compare.
From restoration to redefinition.
2017The truck
After a career in technology and a garage that had held Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Aston Martins and McLarens, Chau bought his first classic. Loose steering, poor brakes, leaks, squeaks, rattles, breakdowns. He asked the question every classic owner eventually asks and nobody had answered: why can a car not look like this and drive like a new one?
The pivotRestoration, then not
We began as a restoration shop and learned what every restoration shop learns: a restored classic is still a classic, with all its reliability, drivability and safety problems intact. So we stopped restoring. While our competitors attempted to make classic cars more modern, we started making modern cars look vintage, hand-building 1960s bodies onto modern chassis.
The claimThe world's first fully modernized classic
Six airbags. Crumple zones. Anti-lock brakes, traction and stability control, LATCH seat belts. We crash tested it. We made it FMVSS compliant. Nobody else in the category can say either of those things, and it is why half of our owners are women with children. We are not reviving history. We are redefining it.
NowAtlanta, Georgia
More than four hundred vehicles delivered, a cult following among car people and non-car people alike, and a client list that includes Jennifer Lopez, Mark Wahlberg, LeBron James and Kevin Hart. The lineup has grown to include the G Vintage, built with Carlex Vehicles on a 577-horsepower platform. The question has not changed. Neither has the answer.
Chau Nguyen, founder and CEO
Build the thing you cannot stop thinking about. Then build it properly.
Chau turned a lifelong obsession with cars into a company that had no category to join, so it made one. His rule for the business is the same rule he gives anyone who asks about leaving a safe career for an idea: the dream is not the hard part. The hard part is refusing to compromise on it once it costs something. Every truck that leaves Atlanta is that refusal, with a stock number.
Our promise.
You are not buying a vehicle. You are buying the experience of never worrying about it.
- Warranty
- 3-year / 36,000-mile bumper-to-bumper
- Service
- Certified traveling technicians, 48 states
- Response
- At your home within 72 hours, at no cost
- Concierge
- A named concierge from first call to delivery and beyond
- Visits
- Walk the Atlanta facility to choose finishes in person
White gloveEvery build
The next one could have your name on the plate.
Tell us the colour you have had in your head since childhood. We will tell you when it can be in your driveway.