Chevrolet Bel Air is quite common as a four-door sedan, but most of these cars are rotting away in junkyards. Survivors are ...

Oscar Ruelas, 78, a car builder, retired longshoreman and co-founder of Duke’s car club, who lives in Los Angeles, on his 1954 “Mr. Lowrider” Chevrolet Bel Air, as told to A.J. Baime.