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    SMOOTH OPERATOR

    Mar 02, 2020 5 minutes
    By Brian Earnest

    Nostalgia can show up in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. For Rob Lewis, of Appleton, Wis., it’s big, loud and wears Highland Green.

    In a nutshell, his 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 fastback is pretty much everything Lewis was hoping for when he went looking for a fixer-upper hobby car a few years back. He was looking for something that took him back down Memory Lane to his high school days. He also wanted something a little unique that a lot of other guys didn’t already have in their garages.

    “I had a ’69 Fairlane back in high school and I was looking for a similar car. That one was actually a notchback, and I couldn’t find a good example of that,” recalls Lewis. “Then I ran across this one on eBay and called the guy a couple times. The

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