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    HIS OWN ‘BARN FIND’

    Jan 15, 2020 5 minutes
    STORY AND PHOTOS BY BOB TOMAINE

    Driving a 1934 Ford three-window coupe from an AACA Hershey flea market space to the show field would be less than remarkable if not for one detail.

    “We took the shortcut way to get over to the show field,” said the Ford’s owner, Don Weir of York, Pa., “so it’s probably about a mile altogether, other than backing it in and out of the barn.”

    The part about the barn makes all the difference, though, as the car had been parked there for a long, long time.

    “We bought it in Binghamton, New York, in 1956,” Weir explained. “A buddy of mine bought it in ’56 and I went to New York with him and helped him take it back to Philadelphia. In ’58, I bought it from him.

    “It’s been sitting in

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