Americana: One-Owner Beauty

When Hyman Horwitz left a Boston basketball game one night in 1970, he found only a parking space where his shiny 1969 Buick Electra had been. Horwitz was so upset, that in mourning his becoming Electra, he could not bring him self to buy a replacement. A year later, he died without a car in the world.

One day this month, the police called Horwitz's widow. They had found the car, the very same 1969 Buick Electra that had disappeared eleven years earlier. The auto is in mint condition, from the paint job...

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