"Dad had always wanted a 1940 Ford coupe," says Paul Zielsdorf of Meltdown Drags fame. "I remember him talking about wanting one ever since I was a kid." In the late 1950s, then-16-year-old Jim ...

Bill has owned a bunch of '40 Fords-"Henry's finest," as he calls them-and was looking for a coupe to go along with his current collection. That collection includes a high-mileage convertible built in ...