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Englishtown, N.J.,” he found two Facebook pages, including one about memories from life at the track. Looking through the photos, he found one that looked like my dad’s car and posted it somewhere. Another race car enthusiast responded: That looks like Joe Dellutri’s car! But he left New Jersey about 40 years ago. Bob continued digging, telling himself the car was just too good to not have a story. How could it just disappear? How could there be no loose ends? How could there be no story here? The answers didn’t come easily. My dad is like a ghost on the internet. He has an email address but he doesn’t use it. He has no social media presence. He has an iPad, but he opens it only to look at pictures of cars. On the internet, he doesn’t exist. Bob searched for Joe Dellutri for eight months, but all he could find was a picture of Dad standing in front of a 1930 Ford. He kept hitting dead ends. But Dellutri is an unusual name. He kept coming across my name on the internet and finally tracked me down. When I arrived at his home and he showed me the car, I had goosebumps just looking at it. It’s the real deal! “Bob, I can’t believe you have this car here!”
“He is still alive?” Bob asked.
“Yeah, he’s still alive.” Electricity was flowing through Bob’s body. “He’s still alive! Omigod!” Bob lives in Easton, MD, a little town about 30 minutes from Annapolis. “I have a son in the Naval Academy at Annapolis,” I told him. “I’m flying up tomorrow. Do you mind if I come see the car?” He was thrilled, and gave me his address, phone, and email. “Let me know when you can come!” he said. We ended our call, and I told my wife Marjorie the story of Bob’s find. She was amazed. “Are you serious?” she asked. I arrived in Maryland the next day and took an Uber to Bob’s house, and he is the nicest guy in the world. Guess what Bob does for a living? He collects old race cars. That’s his hobby. But to earn a living, he does lettering on cars in the city of Easton. When the police buy a dozen cop cars, he puts all the graphics and lettering on them for the whole city of Easton.
Within minutes, I had hatched a plan. My dad is 82, and he has been through some tough times. He had cancer. He’s a survivor. I want to give him the gift of remembering how great a driver he was. His birthday was coming soon. As an early birthday present, I could fly him up to meet Bob and see his car! “I’m going to get my dad up here,” I told Bob. I knew he’d never come if I just asked him, so I’ll have to come up with some more convincing reason for him to make the trip. “I’ll lie to him, I’ll do whatever I have to do to get him up here.”
Bob is also a researcher. Starting with that little sticker, “Raceway Park,
Next month: Carmen orchestrates a Dellutri family trip to Maryland.
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