A family-built 1948 Ford: Video

Passion for automobiles and wrenching are often learned, passed on from generation to generation.

Mike Reetz learned it from his father in Bismark, N.D. In this video, he recalls some of his earliest memories in the family garage.

“I remember learning how to write my name on the floor of the shop in Bondo dust,” he says in the video.

When he returned home after college, his longtime project, a 1948 Ford pickup truck he bought when he was 14 years old, was waiting for him to finish.

As he and his father worked on the truck, brother Shane was there to record and document the build, and the life experiences the Reetz family shared under the hood of a '48 Ford

By David Arnouts