When he was sitting behind the wheel I asked Richard Sr. to reach in the driver’s door map pocket and see what was in there. He did and pulled out the early 1970’s Taggart’s Driving School matchbook that has been in there since I bought the car. He then shook his head and said that was the matchbook that one of his post-divorce girlfriends used to light her cigarettes with during the Syracuse blizzard trip described in the previous thread. He said that at the time of the trip, she was the chain smoking, then-current girlfriend of an NFL player from California.
The look on his face is priceless:
