[Tobra]

When I was a lad of 12, I went to a small town in western Nebraska for a family reunion, which is a significant logistical operation in a case with a dozen brothers and sisters, generally with three or four kids along.

More accurate to say the small town in western Nebraska at the time I suppose, sparsely populated part of the country in its bicentennial year. Dad's friend was a contractor, and knows this plumbing supply guy with some cars that we would be interested in seeing maybe. Meet the nice man in his office, shake his hand, turns out he knows two of my uncles.

Go into this dark, dusty warehouse behind the business, go past a couple of rows of vanities and commodes stacked to the moderately high ceiling. Then we get to the cars, about 30 of them altogether, behind velvet ropes like we had at the movie theater where I worked a few years later. He had an Auburn, Cord and two Duesenbergs, the two seater supercharged one looked suspiciously similar to the two seater Auburn. Most enormous two seat roadster you can imagine. Had a Chrysler Airflow, several Packards, a Pierce Arrow, a V-16 Caddy, a Stutz.

This is one guy's collection in a small town. When I was a kid there was a guy around the corner with a GT 500 Shelby in his garage. There are some surprising things out there, you just have to look.