Some might call this a mulligan—you know, the term coined in golf where you screw up a shot so badly that your buddies take pity and pretend it never happened. And given the outright hate we felt ...

I say this is a love story because it was my honor to serve as the editor ofPopular Hot Roddingand principal photographer of the Project X '57 Chevy for 11 years between 2003 and 2014, and during ...