The cover of this month’s Car Craft features Old Smokey, the 1949 Ford F1 built by Scotty Birdsall of Chuckles Garage in Santa Rosa, California. Just three weeks before our photo shoot, Scotty and his family narrowly escaped the wildfire that ravaged the region, causing millions of dollars in damage, and displaced thousands of people. A self-taught mechanic and fabricator, Scotty does high-end builds out of a modest facility in a manufacturing center on the outskirts of Santa Rosa. Read our feature of Old Smokey here, and don’t miss a second of the tire-smoking video interview with Scotty and his compound-turbo F1.
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