As the sun set on a warm summer day last July, 35-year-old Brack Gillespie drove home to Green Bay, Wis., from the Iola Car Show with the top down and the sun on his neck behind the wheel of his 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, a car he’s known nearly all of his life. Next to him, in the turquoise passenger seat, was the green canvas duffel bag once belonging to a man he barely knew — his father.
Gillespie’s father, John Brack Gillespie, died when Gillespie was just a year and a half old, so it’s through artifacts such as the Corvette and the duffel bag — and stories related to the Corvette — that he’s come to know about his father.
