Hemmings Classic Car

Jeff Nelson

THE YEAR WAS 1968, AND I WAS returning home to South Bend, Indiana, after my freshman year at Wake Forest University. I needed a summer job and it just happened that my father worked for the Wheelabrator Corporation in Mishawaka. He suggested that I apply for a job there.

I did just that, and

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