I won this lovely beast at the Carlisle Fall event in September 2022. It was getting late; most of Friday was spent, and my wife and I were getting the kids in bed.

Shortly after the wee ones got quiet, my phone dinged. I won it. o_O

Earlier in the day, after all the other cars I thought I wanted were well out of reach, I placed a sort of “hail mary” bid on one of the last cars in the line, a 1970 Buick Riviera. I didnt even think they’d get to it, given the length of the list. My thoughts were, precisely: “well, f**k it; worth a $5K bid since I’d planned for that anyway… make the $50 entry fee count for something… let’s see what happens.”

And here I stood, sort of gawking at my screen incredulously. Happiness starting to wriggle onto my face oddly enough that my wife gave me a funny look.