WILD CARD Wildcat

Andy Bennett from north Manchester is no stranger to American muscle cars, involved as he is in the Doomsday Garage, north Manchester’s premier muscle car garage (a shared industrial unit up in the hills) that he and his buddy Dave Evans have run since 1999. Andy and Dave swapped extreme music for extreme horsepower a while back – both guys are longtime friends and in the early Nineties were both in underground punk/extreme metal band Hybernoid, a band with a record deal that saw a great deal of popularity in Europe but remained in relative obscurity back home.

The Doomsday Garage is a hobby shop, but has turned out many show quality, award-winning, and magazine front-cover featured vehicles in its time. Long-time readers might remember the Classic American December 1999 Issue front cover of a 1965 Impala with a rather fetching model? Well, that was a product of this garage. Doomsday was also the team that resurrected the ‘Coco Connection’ Camaro, Chris Spencer’s well-known supergas drag race car.

Andy and Dave also built the race car, ‘Doomsday Impala’, a show quality 1968 Chevy Impala, a drag car that has featured worldwide