Dan Lambertson, 65, a retired attorney from Stockton, Calif., on his 1951 Ford Custom sedan, as told to A.J. Baime.
In 1951, my grandpa Rezeau Lambertson, a traveling salesman, bought the Ford pictured here new from the Jesse E. Smith dealership in Glendale, California. When I was born, my father was in the military stationed overseas, so my grandfather drove my mother and me home from the hospital, in this car. We were living at the time with my two sets of grandparents, in Glendale and Burbank.
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