Rick Wells is the oldest reporter in the market and gets the feature stories usually. It is a shame that the feature has been beaten out of most newscasts as consultants clamor for ever harder news and higher story count. I think it's a mistake because that gee-whiz story is often the only story remembered the next day and adds heart to the newscasts. That's a brand worth having.
This afternoon I was able to catch up with Rick and photographer Ty Lewis for a wonderful story on a 1937 Cord Phaeton, maybe the most gorgeous of all American classic cars. The son Doug Pray found his father's Cord after it had disappeared for almost fifty years. Doug's father, a modest mechanic in the 1950s, had somehow saved the Cord legacy. And this very Cord was his father's favorite, winning many first-place awards. Doug's father had to sell his prize possession to keep the Cord franchise afloat.
His prize-winning Cord had been in a barn near Detroit for 45 years.
The owner called Doug Pray when he saw his story on "The Pickers" cable TV show. Doug paid the farmer what he asked and the beautiful Cord returned to Broken Arrow.
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