RIGHT WAY ROADSTER

Like many people in the old-car hobby, Jack “Flatjack” Meyer is at the point in life where he moves at his own speed. He more or less sets his own schedule every day and does as little or as much as he wants. He keeps busy, but a lot of what he does is what he enjoys doing, such as working on his 1936 Ford roadster.

The restoration of Meyer’s Ford was recently put back on the front burner after sitting for years. According to the well-known Ford flathead V-8 expert from Oshkosh, Wis., 15 years’ worth of work has already been put into the job. It’s one of those projects that was started, then