While strolling past B&W Brake & Wheel Service Center in San Francisco recently, we noticed an old car from the 1920s parked in the garage near the door. Since B&W is the official service provider for all Telstar Logistics fleet vehicles, we enjoy a friendly rapport with the staff of the facility. So we stopped in to inquire about the old car.  "Who owns it?" we asked. "What's the story?"

Turns out, the car is a 1929 Oakland All-American Six, and it is co-owned by Bill Mufarreh, one of the managers of B&W. The tale of how he came into possession of it goes something like this:

In another part of San Francisco, an aging mechanic recently held an auction as he prepared to close down his shop. The mechanic was a technical savant, and his shop included areas for motor vehicle repair, sheet metal fabrication, and manufacturing metal address signs for local homes. The Oakland was last driven in 1949, and for the last 60 years it was parked in a corner of his shop, covered up by an assortment of cardboard boxes and garage effluvia, until it was finally rediscovered and purchased by Mr.Mufarreh from B&W.

Now, regular readers of this Internet weblog will recall that Telstar Logistics recently took an exceptional interest in the Tulsa, Oklahoma time capsule, a concrete box containing a tailfinned Plymouth Belvedere that was buried in 1957 and unearthed earlier this year.  That experiment didn't fare so well — the box leaked, so the Plymouth was reduced to a rotten heap of rusted metal.