Like the hero of the 1976 hit song by Johnny Cash, Gene Kennedy spent seven years putting together a 1929 Ford Model A panel delivery truck “one piece at a time.”
But unlike the auto worker in the Cash song, Kennedy didn’t steal his parts from a factory. He found them, fabricated them or bought them over the course of decades.
The truck – like Cash’s fictional and mismatched Cadillac – is an amalgam made…

