To hear Ed Snell tell it, he's always been a hot rod nut-when he was kid, he built his own race cars and drove them for a hobby. Then he took about 30 years off to make some bread and raise a family ...

Long before the foreign vehicles hit American soil touting superior gas mileage, this 1953 vehicle was getting about 25 miles to the gallon. It was a 1953 Willys Aero Ace powered by a 161-cubic inch, ...