Twice Bitten

Bruce Bolwerk found a pretty good formula for success:

— Find very cool car when you are young;

— Use cool car to get girl;

— Sell cool car to buy wedding ring (show devotion and willingness to sacrifice for your girl);

— Do the husband/father gig for a couple decades;

— Get kids out the door and on their own;

— Go buy a car just like the one you sold;

— Live happily ever after.

That pretty much sums up Bolwerk’s full-circle journey to happiness with his hot 1971 Chevelle SS. The Winchester, Wis., resident was willing to sell off his most prized possession to decorate his girlfriend Deb’s finger and get her to the church. More than 25 years later, she returned the favor and told him he could have another Chevelle SS.

“No more jewelry,” Bolwerk jokes. “She said I can keep this one.”

Bolwerk had to be the envy of a lot of other teens in town