If there’s one good thing that social media has given the world, it’s the ability for just about anyone to share their story. Take, for instance, the story of an Indiana upholsterer who dreams of building nostalgic drag racing customs and who decides to make a dragster out of a discarded Nash Metropolitan. Most media outlets would boil that story down to a one-paragraph entry in the reader’s rides section or a one-minute local-man-does-good segment on the local news. But Mikey Brown of Paper to Pavement has cameras and a YouTube channel, so he can tell an in-depth story that fully explores the why, the who, and the how of every step in the project that he called Banana Hammock. We mean every step, from the pre-build sketch to sourcing the car to putting the finished product on the track

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• Nash Metropolitan