Change. Gary Mekita was a highly impressionable pre-teen when he first spotted the outlandish '32 Ford known as The Cyclops Deuce, a custom rod and highly seasoned veteran of the show car circuit. The ...

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.

If you ask any gearhead about the beginnings of hot rodding, they'll point to the late 1930s in southern California. That's because the original hot rods came along in this part of the US when a bunch ...