April 5th, 2010 
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Mat Chambers remembers the exact moment his vision for Confederate Motors took shape. “It was the graduated from law school,” he Me and my best buddy were driving down Highway 61 from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, around midnight. This was in the mid-’70s, and a bunch of Sons of Silence guys blew by us on skinny, stripped-down Shovelhead choppers. They looked so cool, and the sound of those old Shovels, right on the edge of blowing up … I never got that image out of my mind,”
Chambers left law practice in 1991 to found Confederate, and has dedicated the past 18 years to capturing that outlaw style and spirit with his utterly unique American hot-rod motorcycles. When the company’s radical B120 Wraith street-fighter debuted on our April ’05 cover, the New Orleans-based manufacturer seemed poised for its big break. But just a few months later, Hurricane Katrina changed everything. (more…)
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