’38 Special
According to George Gereg, all it took was a little family squabble to help him land his treasured 1938 Pontiac woodie wagon. Gereg had tried to buy the retired wagon out of a barn from a local farmer near his home in Bethel, Conn., but had been rejected.
“He said he had some kin that wanted it and he didn’t want to sell it,” recalls Gereg. “Well, then he calls me about a month later and says he’ll sell it to me. He got mad at somebody because they didn’t invite him to a wedding or something. He was [ticked] and didn’t want them to have it, so he sold it to me.
“So I gave him $600 and had it towed to my house. That was in June of ’78.”
Some 42 years later, Gereg not only still has the ’38 Pontiac, it has probably never looked better. The wagon was restored not long after Gereg dragged it home, and the car is still winning awards and dropping jaws all these years later.
“It’s kind of a funny story,” chuckles Gereg. “Back then, in 1978, my father was buying rhubarb from a farm for many years. The farm was located only about a mile from my house. Well, the guy needed some
