de Konings win at Winnipeg’s World of Wheels

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Published on Friday, March 23, 2018

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Drew and Bain de Koning of Eden show off their cars in Winnipeg. Drew and Bain’s dad, Bert says, “The boys hard work finally paid off” as their cars have made it to the exhibition floor at World of Wheels in Winnipeg. Drew’s car is a 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang and Bain’s is a 1970 Dodge Challenger. The twin boys bought the cars as shells in 2013 and have extensively worked on them at their home shop. The motors were built by their uncle Leon de Koning. The boys are still only 19 so they have spent their whole teen years on their projects. They did most of the work themselves including the body work and painting. Both de Koning brothers won awards this year including the 2018 Rising Star award which was given to both of them, the Mustang took an award for color design, where the Dodge Challenger took the 2018 Outstanding Street Machine award, Drew’s Mustang also took a mid-Canada Finest 5 Street Driven award.