1932 Ford Highboy

oing back to the earliest days of hot rodding, skilled craftsmen were learning new techniques to make their vehicles long, low, and fast. Sometimes those techniques needed some refining, but hot rodders are still replicating those tricks of the trade more than 60 years later. The ’32 Ford on these pages is an excellent example of a race-inspired hot rod with a mixture of ’50s and ’60s components. But the car’s most impactful features are not based on componentry—it’s all about attitude and that’s not something that can be bought and simply bolted on. Mike Barillaro is responsible