When it comes to famous race cars or well-known hot rods, say the Pierson Brothers' coupe, it's easy to trace the car's history through its various owners and accomplishments. But when the car in ...

Found. Eric Arnette had no idea a 1932 Ford coupe he bought in an Arkansas barn hid a special heritage stretching back to the late 1940s and the very roots of the hot rod movement in California.

Owning a 1932 Ford hot rod means living in two eras at once. The car’s bones come from the earliest days of Ford’s flathead V8, but most Deuces on the road today are the result of decades of ...