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A lot of us had our taste in cars influenced by the first car we worked on or drove when we were young. Dean Settje, from Raymond, Nebraska, said that for him the influential car was a 1957 Chevy. It wasn’t his own car, but it belonged to a high school friend, and he helped with the build as much as he could. That’s all it took to hook him for life.

It didn’t take long before Dean started owning his own cars and trucks, but it would be a couple of decades before

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