Klemme’s Klassic Kars

American muscle has nothing to do with protein shakes or weight lifting for many middle-age males who got their first driver’s license as teenagers of the ’50s and ’60s.

Their idea of American muscle is 409 cubic inches of power packed into a perfectly restored 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS.

EJ and Cary Veit were able to expand the family-owned Veit’s Vettes and Collector Cars from one showroom to two this month because there are plenty of customers - virtually all of them male - looking for the dream cars of their youth.

Many customers see the company’s offerings on the Veit’s Web site One got so excited he called from Kuwait in the middle of a war offering to buy a car sight unseen.

“During the (Iraq) war, we got a phone call from the guy and he wanted to buy a 1958 Lincoln we’d had on the Web site,” EJ Veit said “We’d already sold it The guy must have called five times and kept saying, I want the car.”

“He says, ‘I pay cash’ It was hard to explain to him we’d sold it.”

The customer could have chosen a 1958 Lincoln limousine John D Rockefeller once owned EJ Veit also has a rare, 1935 Packard convertible in his personal collection that is worth about $250,000 He’s willing to sell for the right offer

And in the showrooms, all for sale, are an assortment of Corvettes, Mustangs, Thunderbirds and Camaros

The Veits and the Klemme family, owners of Klemme�s Klassic Kars on Brady Street in Davenport, Iowa are in the business of fulfilling the automotive dreams of those who can afford those dreams

“Now we’d like more people in the area to know we are here We were going for exposure when we came to Bettendorf,” Cary Veit explained.

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