BIG GAMBLE
Jody Feiertag probably wouldn’t recommend acquiring a collector car in the same way he landed his fabulous 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special. But he certainly hit a home run when he tried it.
“I got it from the original owner in St. Paul [Minn.]. My mom lives over there where I grew up and I used to drive by this house, and all I saw was the front bumper sticking out of the garage,” laughs Feiertag, a resident of Chetek, Wis. “He’d have his garage door open and it was buried in junk. All you saw was the front of the car sticking out. I’d stop in there occasionally and see if he’d want to sell and it, and it was ‘No, no …’ He was in his 80s and he didn’t even remember what model it was!”
Feiertag wasn’t deterred, however, and he kept inquiring about the car, even though he didn’t know for sure what it was. He didn’t even know the year, but he had his heart set on a big 1950s Cadillac and figured the car in the cluttered garage was eventually going to need a new home.
“I had a ’60 Cadillac. I think that was the only one I had at the time, and
