Check Out My Ride: A Cabriolet three decades in the making

Published May 31, 2009 4:00am ET



Jim Winn was a young man when he first took apart a car. The feeling of pounding out metal and grinding fiberglass and steel into the angle of a body line soon became an incurable impulse. But when one lucky car outlived its usefulness, Winn turned an innocuous weekend hobby into a 32-year restoration project.

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