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Shop Tour: Unique Performance (Part 1: Body Shop)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

unique-headerpic.jpgEven if you haven’t heard of Unique Performance, we’ll bet you have seen some of the incredibly sexy vehicles they produce, including the Foose ‘69 Camaro, and most significantly the G.T.500E of “Gone In 60 Seconds” movie fame.  And, while some custom shops produce incredible one-offs, Unique is in the, well, unique position of manufacturing as many as eight of these highly-customized vehicles a month.

We stopped by their Farmers Branch, TX shops to give you an idea of what’s involved in the process, and to introduce you some of the people and the tools they use to convert rusted junkers to $150,000+ supercars en masse.

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