T was in 2019 at the Grand National Roadster Show when I had the good fortune to meet Jim “Jake” Jacobs. His fun with Model As since the sixties had inspired my own Model A fun, and naturally, we hit it off. You wouldn't know it at all speaking to him, but Jake is hot rod royalty in the greatest way but also totally humble in the purest sense. His nononsense approach to life sees him enjoying things in the most fun and genuine way possible. Getting to know him in recent years, I admire the man; he is as real as they get and has absolutely no ego – he lets his work speak for itself and what a body of work he has done in his very
