These days you can get just about any kind of radio controlled vehicle as a ready-to-run model. Cars, trucks, excavators, you name it. Open the box, charge the batteries, and you’re ready to roll.

Recall owner-operator Steve Bixler’s “Lady in Red” cabover and the model of it that was gifted to him early by his sons last month? I promised to get information about the man that built the one-off ...