ometimes, the cars just find you. Ray and Adeline Borens took possession of this gently used ’67 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Custom in late 1967, when the couple decided it was time to get a new car. “They lived in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and probably had an Oldsmobile dealer closer to them than Cooper in Stevens Point, but they found this car,” son-in-law Jim Schultz recalls. And when they found it, they held onto it—and didn’t let go until 1995, long since Ray had passed and Adeline was no longer able to drive. Twenty-seven years in the upper Midwest, with snow and salt abundant during the long winter months, is a long time for any car, much less one from the ’60s when people were expected to trade in every three years and rust protection wasn’t what it could
