Les Holden, 68, a retired mortgage banker living in Southern Pines, N.C., on his 1904 Cadillac Model B Rear-Entrance Tonneau, as told to A.J. Baime.
In 1996, I was driving in the “London to Brighton” rally in England, the world’s longest-running motoring event, in my 1902 Rambler when I noticed single-cylinder Cadillacs passing me. At that time, I had already been restoring brass-era cars for a decade. [Brass-era cars are brass-adorned vehicles built from the late 19th century up to about 1915.] I thought to myself: I am going…