Last week on KGFW’s TOT Stan Staab shared a story of reunification.
Stan: “Well I lived in Ansley, and I was just a 16 year old kid who loved cars. And I spotted this old car and it was actually, I think an old cop car and it was black, painted black and white and kind of a rough looking thing. And I thought I’m going to have that car someday, I paid $50 for the car. And the thing about this car is that in the thirties a lot of them ended up on the race tracks, on the dirt racetracks. People forget that, there was a big deal to go out and take the 36, the 40, and run it around the dirt track in a few times around, they weren’t worth much you know. This one is a survivor literally.”
But, when Stan went to college, his car hit the road.
Stan: “So I had it a couple years and its kinda of a strange story. I came down to college here, in Kearney State College about back then. And my dad sold it and it was gone for a couple years , excuse me, I was gone a couple years to college. And he sold it and I had kept the title just by fortune, good fortune. And the car was literally missing for forty years.”
That was until Stan received an unexpected phone call
Stan: “Actually my mother called me. And she says, I think you have, we have your old car Stan sittin’ around. I said, what you don’t have that old car. Yeah she says, it’s at Kearney and this gentleman bought this car to fix it up. Make hot rod out of it. You need to come check it out cuz he wants a title. Walked in, saw the car immediately knew it was mine whipped out the title and said I think this is my car and the guy said uh yeah you’re right. We worked out a deal. He brought it over to Norfolk where I lived. And uh, Twenty years later here I am. It’s takin a long time and a lot of bucks to get here, but uh, it’s been a fun project.”
Stan’s story is just one of many that can be encountered during
Kearney Cruise Nite week. Many of the cars and their owners have a story to tell, just ask.
