  How I Finally Built My Dream Car After a career of building race cars and hot rods for other people, I made one for myself. By: Jack Hagemann, As Told To Stef Schrader
Building cars is a family thing for us. After World War II, my dad built race cars—midgets, hot rods, that sort of stuff. He actually raced himself for a while in the Bay Area and was the first to hit 100 miles per hour on the Oakland Speedway. When I was a kid, I always hung around the shop with Dad, helping him out, and kind of got the knack of it.
After I got out of the Navy in the late '60s, I started building aluminum bodies on race cars: midgets, dragsters, funny cars, and sporty cars. I also started building motorcycle gas tanks for the Harley-Davidson XR-750 flat-trackers in the early '70s.
I've been a fabricator, building cars and parts for other people, almost my whole life. But a little over a decade ago, I bought this '34 Ford. That's the year that Fords started having nicer lines—a more flowing look. I looked for a five-window '34 coupe for a long time and paid way too much money when I finally found one, but it's what I wanted.
It was a running car, but it needed help. It was just in primer when I bought it. It had a Chevy 350 in it, which I'm not particularly fond of—I'm a little bit of a purist. To me, a Ford's a Ford, and a Chevy's a Chevy. It sat with me for years, then I finally I decided I'd just take the car apart and do a restoration on the thing—reassemble it, paint it, and everything.
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