He Saved His Father’s Rare Car From the Junkyard, and Built a Museum Around It

Terry Gale, 62, a retired restaurant and maintenance company owner living in Elizabeth, Colo., on his 1954 Nash Ambassador, as told to A.J. Baime.

When I was growing up, my dad worked at a Nash car dealership in Price, Utah, where our family lived. In 1971, he traded in his car for a Nash Ambassador, paying an additional $50. He drove the car for a few years, then, one day, my sister-in-law was driving it and the oil pump went out. I can remember that day. We had the car towed to our farm and it sat there for 18 years. I used to play in it when I was a kid.