In the past year, Dean Weller's Grandpa's Old Ford Garage has become the most visited page on Kansastravel.org, and on March 2, I returned to DeSoto, Kansas to catch up with Dean and learn what new projects he has completed. Dean is modest about his accomplishments. He is not seeking celebrity, and although he is warm and courteous with visitors, he finds visitors a distraction that take him away from his auto restoration hobby.

Dean likes to start a project at the beginning of each year and usually finishes before the hot weather of summer. He had a bit later start on the Ford Sportster he is restoring this year and apologized that it will probably take well into summer to complete this year's project.

I feel blessed to have met Dean Weller and have this opportunity to preserve a record of his amazing automotive art. I plan to return and photograph the competed Ford Sportster latter in the year.

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