![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he got a Harmony acoustic guitar when he was seven, it mostly collected dust. “Dad bought it with front-end damage then had his guy in the shop re-paint it the original color. Dad grumbled at us a bit because we were all touching it, getting fingerprints all over the new paint (laughs).” Evans on his 16th birthday, when he was gifted this ’67 Triumph TR-4 in Signal Red. “It was the most beautiful thing I’d seen at that time. “I was just tall enough to look over the fender as my friends and I gathered around,” he said. One day when Steve was six, his dad pulled up in a sky-blue TR-4. “After that, he drove a string of them he’d get through his shop – Triumphs, MGs, and an Austin-Healey that was his favorite.” “His first was a ’57 Triumph TR-3 he bought new over there and had shipped,” Evans said. His other burgeoning passion involved the British sports cars his Air Force veteran father repaired at Import Car Service, a garage he started upon returning stateside. Steve with his ’05 PRS Corvette (in Daytona Sunset Orange) and ’15 Stingray Z06 in Torch Red. Steve Evans was just 12 years old in 1968, when he began to appreciate the sleek bodies of electric guitars in the brochures he collected through the mail – gazing until he memorized all the brands and models. Steve Evans in 1985 with a ’65 Fender Jaguar and ’64 Jaguar XKE in Signal Red. ![]()
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