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1931 Ford Roadster Pickup

e can trace our passion for hot rods to something that occurred, we saw, or influenced us in one way or another when we were kids. Such was the case for Mike Tyskiewicz when he was a youngster living in the Danbury, Connecticut, area. His hot rod “church” was the Danbury Race Arena, a 1/3-mile oval, which he visited frequently as a kid on Saturday nights. Saturday night was reserved for

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