The automotive industry is evolving. Formalization, regulation, and the pull of newer disposable technologies is closing in on systems that once ran on improvisation, on trust, and on human ingenuity.

Guided by a nostalgia for the mechanical, Ewing shows us a world that is shaped by care, attention, continuity, and repair. It is a world that is distinctly ours and a world that stands as a record of enduring values on the brink of disappearance.