It took quite a while, but Bill Person Jr. and his dad, Bill Sr., eventually put Grandma’s Firebird back on the road.
It all started when Milwaukee, Wis., resident Shirley Nelson cracked up her car back 1967. The little mishap changed her life in more ways than one.
“She had a car accident, and that’s how she met my soon-to-be-grandfather,” chuckles Bill, Jr. “She eventually married the gentleman, and I was born three years later, and I knew him as my grandfather until he died in 1986.
“So she wound up searching for a replacement car, and she bought this new on April 28, 1967,” he adds proudly, pointing at the silver 1967 Firebird coupe that is still in the family.
From there, the car went to Bill Jr.’s mother. Sort
