Dennis McPhail’s Forty Ford

Every car has a story; in the hot rod and custom world this couldn’t be truer. Just like each person on the planet has a story and a different journey, every car has been on a journey since rolling off the assembly line. Some may have spent a life of service and always been kept in a garage and driven and enjoyed and some might have been tucked away after just a few years on the road only to be found decades later by some treasure hunter. Others may have been passed from one owner to the next with every last ounce of use getting squeezed out of them only to eventually be snatched up by an enthusiast to get fixed up and returned to well-beyond their former glory. Others might have been stripped down and taken to the local track to give someone a run for their money or maybe restyled to make a personalized one-of-a-kind custom. While some may have met such fates, others may have been a wreck early on only to sit in a junkyard for sixty or seventy years being a mechanical donor along the way to keep other cars on the road or to give up major panels and sections to replace those on other cars that succumbed to the elements or replace those that were damaged over the years. Whatever the case may be, whenever you see an old car rolling into a show, rest assured there is a story of how it came to be the art in motion before your eyes.

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