I grew up around old cars, hot rods, classics...cars like that. I spent my childhood helping my dad restore his 1953 Ford F100. All his friends were hot rod builders, drag racers, and car enthusiasts. Even today, I’ll hear a sound or smell a scent that thrusts me back to a memor …

The original hot rods came about in the 1940s and 1950s when young men coming back from the Second World War took the covers off the old cars they’d left in their garages. They’d cheated death overseas and weren’t about to settle into an everyday lifestyle, and so they focused on building cars …