1956 Chevy Bel Air
Aug 26, 2022
4 minutes
BY NICK LICATA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
WES ALLISON
Hoss (that’s what he’ll answer to), like most kids who grew up in the late ’70s, played with cars—Hot Wheels and the like—but as he got a little older, that toy car passion turned to real cars. “My dad always had old cars around,” Jonathan “Hoss” Nagel says. “We used to restore cars together, Corvettes mostly, which is how I got into this whole car thing.”
Working as a mechanic and keeping the fleet of trucks on the road at Leonard’s Services, a neighbor near the shop took notice of the old cars hanging and informed Hoss he had an old Chevy for sale. Not thinking it would turn
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