This car was totalled. Really.
By: Kevin Oeste
What do you do if you wreck your prized
1966 427 Corvette? If your name is Brent
Jarvis, you pick up the pieces and build
the baddest mid-year in the land.
Brent Jarvis is one of those people who really likes
playing with cars. By day, he owns and operates
Performance Restoration in Mundelein, IL., a shop that
does everything from bodywork on everyday cars to
frame-off restoration to construction of custom
resto-mod pro-touring g-machines.
In his spare time, Jarvis campaigns a 1957 Corvette Pro-Street car capable of running low 7-
second passes in the quarter mile. Lots of body shops build show-quality cars to
demonstrate the quality of their work. Not very many of them are routinely pushed to nearly
200 miles per hour on the drag strip. But that’s Jarvis, a man who applies the term “high
performance” to every aspect of his vehicles. They not only look perfect, with pristine paint
and precise fit, but they also have to perform on the street or track.
