Start Your Engine
Summer, 2026
Some pinups pose with cars. Miss July Sophie Saint actually restores them.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Sophie Saint knows her way around an automobile. Saint specializes in classic car restoration out of her Topanga, California, shop, Sophie Saint Motors. The engine component she finds the most intriguing? “The piston,” she says.
Her deadpan expression gives way to a sly smile as she quotes a line f...
