Mike Lovell is similar to many car lovers whose collections we’ve featured in GreatGarages. The vehicles aren’t just high-dollar valuables: They represent childhood, dreams, aspirations and treasured joys. For example, the passion meant reclaiming at least two automobiles. One is a 1967 Camaro he had to sell to go off to college; his dad reacquired it and had the classic pony car restored by friends. Now it sits in the purpose-built garage just south of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. Another is a 1987 Buick Grand National, which he sold shortly after buying it. But America’s quarter-mile production-car king that year had engaged his daughter’s interest; she chided him for the sale without her sign-off. Now, with velvet stanchions guarding it, the GN is safe at home. When she’s 16, it’s hers. A classic joy.
