Mike and Jim Ring got their start rebuilding custom cars as kids using discarded lawn mower engines they found in the local dump in Plain, where their dad ran a service station.

The brothers were two of seven kids in a one-bathroom, three-bedroom home with a garage below where they attempted in vain to hide their car-building experiments from their mother long before either boy could legally drive.

In July these brothers, now in their mid-40s with kids of their own, made custom hot rod history by winning Goodguys Rod and Custom Association Street Machine of the Year for the second year in a row for a car they created.

Mike & Jim when they first decided to build custom hood hinges.