One Day in the Shop is a collection of regular feature articles about some of the rare and exotic automotive projects that I’ve had my hands in over the years.

Here’s the concept: I’ve been turning wrenches on vintage racing and historic automobiles for over 35 years and have built an archive that covers a bunch of that time. I’ll pick an image, of one or more cars that were in the shop, and I will write about what was there, that one day in the shop.

Initially, the idea was to focus on the time I spent at Phil Reilly & Co, one of the premier restoration shops in the world. I was there from 2006 to 2015, with a couple of freelance projects after I started Traveling With Tools and went out on the road. But it has been more than 10 years now, and the archive has grown. I may also occasionally go back to the early nineties, though photographic evidence from that era is slim.

Not every story here will follow the structure of the above concept; some will be more straightforward essays about a particular car or component, untied to a particular image. Occasionally I intend to cover specific tools or techniques that have been useful in the pursuit of restoring special old cars.

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Here are a few highlights from recent years: