This Guy’s Garage: Johnny Bailey / Tucson, AZ

The great part about This Guy’s Garage is we all get a chance to see the cool stuff that’s sequestered away in private garages all over the country, and to get there, you don’t have to leave the confines of your comfy chair. This month, Johnny Bailey knocked our socks off with this great photo of his shop—not so much for the surgery-like lighting or even that bitchin’ blast cabinet but for the cars. Johnny told us he was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and at the impressionable age of 17, he had the pleasure to witness some of the East Coast’s premiere A/FX racers in action—guys like Ronnie Sox of Sox & Martin, Billy West who drove the Virginia Twister, Hubert Platt, Malcolm Durham’s Strip Blazer Chevelle, and even Richard Petty. “It turned me into a car-crazy teen, and not much has changed over the years.” He moved to Tucson with his wife, Viola, in 2005, where he is retired and just having fun building cars. That just might be the car crafter’s version of the American Dream.

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Photo Gallery: This Guy’s Garage: Johnny Bailey / Tucson, AZ- Car Craft Magazine