ROSS.. YOU WERE THERE WHEN THEY PULLED THE TRUCK UP. FIRST RESPONDERS HAD BEEN IN THIS SAME AREA LESS THAN AN HOUR EARLIER FOR A THREE CAR CRASH. AFTER CLEARING THAT ROAD AND INTO THE MERRIMACK RIVER.

Randy Simmons casually flicks the dust from the fender of his 1947 Hudson and shades his eyes from the midday sunshine. "You know," he says, "I got tired of building cars that only did one thing." Now ...