To chop top, or not to chop top? That is a question hot rodders have been asking since the inception of the genre of car enthusiasm in the 1930s. Back then, hot rodders would do anything to gain more ...

After he was out of college, he began buying and trading Mercs while looking for the "right one" to keep. He worked with Johnny Miranda, a Southern California resident who also dealt in vintage Mercs.

Marvin learned paint and body skills in trade school as a teenager, then expanded his mechanical skills as a gas turbine technician in the Navy, mechanically maintaining the 20,000-horsepower turbine ...