About Us

Dan Swan was about 30 years old when he started restoring classic automobiles as a profession in a town outside of Atlanta, Georgia, but his fascination with cars started long before that when Dan bought his first 1964 Chevy Impala convertible while he was attending classes at Iowa State University for electrical engineering. He learned the ropes when he transformed that Impala from a rusty relic into a shiny new blue convertible. When he graduated college he met his wife to be, Connie, and they moved to Georgia to start a family. They lived in Georgia for 7 years where their first son and daughter Stacey and Kenny were born. In 1983, the family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina and added 2 more additions, the second son and daughter David and Valerie. Here they painted and fixed up some vehicles while their young sons would beg to help dad work on the cars, and here the boy’s passion grew as their father’s has when he was their age. When the boys were old enough to really start turning these old cars into nice new trophy automobiles, Dan decided it was time to open up the official shop, and for 16 years the Swan family has been renovating classic cars together at NC Classic Restorations in Fuquay-Varina.