Article: How Sweet It Is; A dentist's restorations are used mostly for cavity-promoting forays to Dairy Queen.(NEWS)

Byline: PHIL BERG

In 1968, Ford Motor Co. asked a Detroit-area seventh-grade art class to draw visions of what future Thunderbirds might look like. Steven Legel was a student in that class. One of the best things about growing up in the Motor City is that car companies regularly assigned this kind of schoolwork, and that bred car enthusiasts.

"I've been a car nut all my life, recalls Legel, now a dentist who took over his father's practice 28 years ago. "My favorite cars are the ones you just have fun driving to the Dairy Queen.

Exactly 20 years ago, he bought a "55 Thunderbird which he calls his "tuition carhis first restoration attempt. It was ...

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