View Full Gallery Some folks just can’t leave well enough alone — in a good way. Take Ward Seifrid’s 1962 Corvette. It started out as a complete basket case, literally a pile of parts stored in the second-story rafters of a commercial building. Despite its dilapidated condition, with a frame in such bad shape that it was not salvageable, “I bought it anyway, primarily because it was titled,” he admits. Initially, Seifrid considered doing a pure resto since he has a few other collectible ’60s Corvettes in his collection. So he had some initial assembly work done on the car by a restorer, but then took it to John Wargo of The Custom Shop (Flanagan, Illinois). After several discussions to develop all the details, and seeing Wargo’s numerous other restomods, he completely changed his mind: “Everything just kind of came together — I wanted to step it up a notch from the others.” 2/28 That’s really an understatement, since the concept and list of upgrades th...