A Study in Steel and Hair: Tomas Reyer in His Machine Shop

Drive your Toyota like a jackrabbit. Gun it at the greenlight, catch air off a speedbump, carve donuts in your neighbor's lawn. Do it 15 hours a day, 365 days a year. How's that little Corolla feeling now?

Ask an espresso machine. It speaks from experience. The only difference is... When your ride breaks down, you throw a tantrum; but, when the espresso stops flowing, half of town goes into a slump.

That's when you need a real serious dude. One with legendary lambchops and a fanatical devotion to progressive talk radio.

Someone who clangs his way around the inside of a vintage E61 with all the delicacy of Baryshnikov on power tools.

It's the sort of man-dance that leaves you wondering: Does the man fix the machine, or the machine fix the man? That's a serious question. For a serious master.

See? See how serious?

What light through yonder window breaks...