Nearly a decade ago, I did the unthinkable and jumped a security fence at a private airport in Decatur, Ark., in hopes of securing use of the property for a photo shoot. Not only was I lucky enough to not get shot by the owner for trespassing, I learned he was a fellow Ford man with some incredible examples of the breed, and we’ve been friends ever since.
Prior to getting up the nerve to climb that fence, I had spent half a day trying to gain legal access to the airport. I visited the local post office located less than a mile away and ran into a letter carrier who told me she’d been with the United States Postal Service for a decade and had never made a delivery to the property. She didn’t even know its actual mailing address!
Earlier in the week, I had traveled from the Detroit area to Billups Classic Cars in Colcord, Okla., to photograph a one-of-a-kind 1967 Shelby GT500 that Jason Billups and his team had just cosmetically restored. Billups and I discussed possible photo-shoot locations in
