Thirty-nine years ago at the AACA’s Hershey fall meet, one of those occurrences generally dismissed as automotive urban legend (or at least tall tales) actually happened.
“In the flea market,” recalled Phil Stofanak, whose 1946 Ford Campbell-Built Club Station Wagon is featured here, “we were just looking at things and listening to conversations when my friend overheard something. He was eavesdropping. It’s Hershey, you have to do things like that, you have to listen for things. We all know that.
“Anyway, he overheard a conversation between two guys, and one’s lamenting the fact that he has a line on two Ford woodies, a ’35 car and some truck. ‘It’s a package deal and I want nothing to do with the truck, but I rode to school in the car when I was a kid and I’d love to have it.’ My friend came over and said, ‘OK, you need to go and talk to that guy. Here’s what I know.’ ”
Their initial optimism was tempered, he said, by the fact that, then as now, a Hershey shopper might be from literally anywhere in the world. It was revived, though, when Stofanak learned that
