his month we revisit our friends at L & S Customs in Prospect Hill, North Carolina. If you’ll recall, we recently featured (Dec. ’22) the ’68 Chevy longbed they finished up last summer—this time around, we’re taking an insider’s look at Tony and Joy Capps’ ’59 Chevy Apache that’s getting the L & S touches thanks to our inside man, L & S’ own Troy Comer.

“Tony Capps and his parents are lifetime members of the Antique Auto Club of America,” Comer tells us, “with his parents having owned over 20 classic cars and trucks from the ’40s to the late ’60s, preferring Chevys. They both had cars from their birth years, so Tony’s wife, Joy, decided she wanted something from her birth year (1958) as well.

“They put the word out that they were looking for a ’58 Chevy truck, and a friend mentioned that he had a too-nice-to-pass-up restored ’59 Fleetside. Their intentions for the truck are to have a show-quality, dependable hot rod that they both can easily drive and enjoy for cruise nights and trips. Capps is hopeful that once it’s completed, the truck will be invited to display at the SEMA Show.”

The specs on the truck so far are an Art Morrison chassis, Wilwood brakes all around, a Rick’s Tanks stainless fuel tank, an Inglese eight-stack–injected LS3 backed by a 4L60E, a big-window conversion and a load of fabrication and sheetmetal modifications with more to come.

Obviously, we can’t wait to see this one come to fruition—and get our man in the field, John Jackson, on assignment shooting the finished product! Thanks for the update, Capps!