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Hang a right at the Arco in Echo Park, Los Angeles, and head a few blocks up a sunny residential street lined with work vans, sidewalk dogs, and flowering shrubs and trees. You’ll know you’ve arrived when you stop to admire the three bright red vintage Toyota trucks. A 1988 Land Cruiser, a 1986 pickup, and a 1977 Land Cruiser. All parked in a row.

“Stacey strikes again.” 

Somewhere in the desert outside Reno, Nevada, kneeling in front of a towering sagebrush, five-year-old Shelby Hall grins for the camera. She’s wearing her signature uniform: a car-themed t-shirt (today it’s Hummer), a pair of hand-me-down jean shorts and her pink sparkly cowgirl boots. She’s just pushed her dark brunette bangs aside to get a better look at her freshly-plucked prize — a handful of dusty Nevadan dirt.

It may as well be fairy dust.

The Self-Taught One-Man Show

and a damn good one at that. To keep up with professional racers, he needed an equally capable ride. Art’s solution? A modified 1994 Ford Bronco XLT.