Jim McNiel first saw the car in 1959. It was from a past era, its age visible by the scratches and dents it had sustained. The low-slung custom car scene had been replaced by the muscle car age by ...

Although its subtly flared wheelarches and white-letter radial tires make this Ford Fiesta look like something from a late-1970s cover of Custom Car magazine, it’s real and it’s here. It was a ...