Some might call this a mulligan—you know, the term coined in golf where you screw up a shot so badly that your buddies take pity and pretend it never happened. And given the outright hate we felt ...

Over the years, there have been dozens of long-term "magazine" project cars, but none as long-lived or as famous as the yellow 1957 Chevy known as Project X. It all started in 1965 (the year this ...