It’s always a shock when the hobby loses one of its founding fathers. You know it’s coming, but not today, right? Some of heroes fade away with little fanfare, but not Gene Winfield, who passed on the morning of March 4, 2025, just a few months before what would have been his 98th birthday. Gene could never be described as a recluse; he was out and about and doing stuff until the very end. I had just chatted with him and 103-year-old Ed Iskenderian at the Grand National Roadster Show. Gene looked a little frail, but he and Isky connected...