Found. Eric Arnette had no idea a 1932 Ford coupe he bought in an Arkansas barn hid a special heritage stretching back to the late 1940s and the very roots of the hot rod movement in California.

In the past, Rick's taste always leaned toward musclecars; his lifetime-long list of cool cars was mostly filled with Chevelles, Camaros, Novas, and Mustangs. That began to change when Rick picked up ...