"I was in the used-car business back in the '60s and every car that came in that was high miles, it was just the practice to take the speedometer out and turn the numbers back. Every dealer did it. We turned back one Cadillac three separate times. It was a beautiful car! I bought cars from new-car dealer inventory for my used-car business. I knew the new-car dealers and visited them all about once a week and they'd tell me when they had some cars that needed attention: If a car was nearing a hundred thousand you couldn’t sell the damn thing.

"The whole secret of restoring a car is that anybody can do it, all you’ve got to do is have patience and perseverance. It’ll get done. One piece at a time. If you look ahead at what's in front of you and what it will take to finish the job, you'll get discouraged and stop working on it. You've got to take one piece, get it right, and then move on. If you had looked at this project, you’d have said 'Oh no!' It took me about five years, off and on.

"I built my own facility at home. There's a small shop and then my storage building. I couldn’t legally put a permanent building there, so I put up a temporary building: It’s a plywood floor on pressure-treated 4x4s buried in the ground, overlain with plywood and framed with two-by-fours out of Home Depot. I didn’t sheet it or put a roof on it. I put shrink wrap on it. For a little over $100 you can cover the whole building. It shrinks right down until it’s nice and stiff. I’m on my third shrink wrap."