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However, 877-300-0243 (U.S. & Canada) 386-246-3431 (International) we probably haven’t photographed a stock of subject vehicles in 2020 that we P.O. Box 421751 would normally have going into winter. That means we will have to be more Palm Coast, FL 32142-1751 (Note: Some issues may include a special, combined or expanded creative. issue that may count as two issues toward your subscription.) Being creative has been on my mind of late, and it’s actually made me more PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD aware. After all, sometimes those interesting subject cars and trucks are right in www.oldcarsweekly.com front of you, but time and even proximity makes them easy to overlook. I realized that last weekend when my family went back to my parents’ house in Minnesota ADVERTISING ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE and as we were unpacking, a potential feature vehicle drove down the street. Michelle Kraemer - 715-318-0946 My folks live on a street where most of the neighbors have lived there for ([email protected]) decades, so I am at least acquainted with some of them. One longtime neighbor ADVERTISING SALES ASSISTANT Kathy Shanklin - 715-350-7090 is a bachelor with good taste; when I was a kid during the 1980s, he was still ([email protected]) daily driving a red 1967 Plymouth Satellite two-door hardtop. When the Plym- SALES DIRECTOR outh started to get rough, he parked it in his garage with hopes of restoring it. He Heather Glynn Gniazdowski then bought a new black-and-gray 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula and kept it as a ([email protected]) fair weather car. That Firebird has now completely replaced the Satellite, which he apparently sold to a restorer a few years ago.Years after buying the Firebird, in the mid 1990s, the bachelor bought a new 4x4 GMC shortbox stepside in black to match the Firebird. That GMC pickup was the vehicle I saw driving down the street as I was unpacking last weekend, and somehow it still looks as new as his President & CEO, Andrew W. Clurman fair weather Pontiac Formula. Senior VP, CFO, COO, & Treasurer, Brian Sellstrom CTO, Nelson Saenz, Executive Vice President (EVP) and That GMC led me to think about some of the other neat vehicles around my Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Patricia B. Fox childhood home that might still be around and make good subjects for Old Cars, Director of Production, Phil Graham VP, People & Places, JoAnn Thomas so my wife and I went on a drive to find a few of them. Sure enough, the local fat- VP, Digital Products & Platforms, Katie Herrell fendered Willys owners are still active — they drove by us in the opposite direc- AIM BoardChair, Efrem Zimbalist III tion with their yellow 1941 sedan. The potential vehicle I was really after belongs NEWSSTAND SALES: to the town’s fire department. After poking around the fire stations in town, I NPS Media Group found it peering through the windows of station number 3 — a circa-1969 Chevy shortbox stepside that’s still in service. While I am in town for the EDITORIAL/ADVERTISING OFFICE 5225 Joerns Drive, Suite 2, Stevens Point, WI 54481 week, my plan is to share some of the vehicles that I’ve been 715-445-2214 Fax: 715-997-8883 admiring for decades and certainly formed my interests in www.oldcarsweekly.com the hobby, especially the fire department’s pickup. www.oldcarsreport.com [email protected] As I write this editorial, it was announced that an ex- perimental vaccine for COVID-19 has appeared to be highly effective. If that vaccine proves effective, I hope we can return to a normal show season for 2021. Regardless, Due to COVID-19, Old Cars (ISSN: 0048-1637) will be published twice in May and June 2020, both being double issues. Otherwise it is published you can bet the Old Cars staff will remain creative in find- three times every month, except Five times in April and four times in July (39 issues per year). Old Cars is published by Cruz Bay Publishing, an Ac- ing great old cars and trucks to feature.