Sep 17, 2025
One Day in the Shop... August 25, 2009
A brief look at one of the more unique cars ever to come through the driveway at Phil Reilly & Co, on the day that Jay Eitel brought his Ford hot rod by for the crew to ogle over. Jay was an engineer and inventor, best known for creating the cherry picker, those trucks with a bucket on an extendable boom that are most widely seen working on utility lines these days. This project had been started…