By Ezra Dyer
November 25, 2014
Motoramic
If you watch enough garage-centric reality TV, you get the idea that building a custom car is a labor-intensive yet ultimately straightforward process: bolt on a stack of new parts, maybe fabricate a custom piece here and there, slap on a coat of paint and you’re overhauled. Jonathan Ward’s Icon facility in Los Angeles would seem ripe for the Gas Monkey Garage treatment, trafficking as it does in beautifully wrought high-dollar 4x4s and vintage American metal.
But then you take a closer look at one of his cars and realize the fundamental incompatibility between this place and mad