Patrick Flynn knows exactly why having the right friends is so important. “I got it in 2018,” said Flynn, whose 1966 Thunderbird is shown here. “It was a situation in which, when my wife passed away, I started working for a good friend of mine, doing his bookkeeping. He talked me into it, saying, ‘You know what you’ve got to do? You’ve got to get a nice car and then go to cruises, meet people,’ and so on. Basically, this was the idea.”
His friend, Hank Antoniolli, had come up with what was, of course, a very good idea, and Flynn began looking at ads. The Thunderbird was for sale in Milford, Pa., about an hour from Flynn’s home in Mount Pleasant Township, so the two went to see it. For more than one reason, a
