Surviving the 70s: Muscle Cars, Freedom and Fun

Not everyone gets to grow up in a small farming town like Yorktown, Indiana, but Greg Phillips did. What’s more, he made the best of it by never really leaving.

Greg’s fate was sealed before his birth, when his father opened his own pattern shop. Phillips Patterns opened for business as a wood pattern manufacturer on a small plot of land that belonged to Greg’s grandfather. Decades later, it still remains a family business.

As a boy, along with two friends—Bill Webb and Mark Zurlino—Greg be...