Werner, a veteran hot rodder with a Model A, Model T and 1934 Ford three-window coupe street rod already on his resume, warned that people shouldn't assume the car was an easy build merely because its fiberglass basis. "It's a lot of work," he concluded. "Everybody figures it's a kit car and you just bolt it together like a model car. But it's a lot of work, the fit and the finish. It takes a lot of adjusting to get everything to work and fit right."

For Werner, it took nearly three years and several friends north of Saskatoon with backyard garages to get the fit and the finish just right. "We started off that we were going to build a fairly plain driver," Werner recalled. "And it went a little overboard. We're still driving it, but we got to be a lot more careful."

Werner reported only one difficulty with the build. "When we started on the car I ordered in everything new. But then everything sat for two years," he recalled. "Then when we started it up, the brakes didn't work." It took three weeks of tinkering and finally a new master cylinder to get them fully operational.

The car debuted in April of this year to a massive response, capturing 13 first-place awards in its first two shows in Saskatoon and Regina. Werner said the paint job has proven to be the real show stopper. "The paint job makes the car," he said. "The paint is what brings people to the car."

"We had seen a car in the city and we loved that colour," Werner continued. "We said this is probably the last car that we're going to get built so might as well get the colour we really want."

Although Werner has already encountered a potential problem at publicly judged car shows. "The outdoor shows, they're not really judged it's just the people voting for them. If they don't happen to like a pearl orange car you don't win. I understand it though, not everyone likes orange."