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    Fortuitous Find

    Feb 22, 2022 6 minutes
    BY MATTHEW LITWIN
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID CONWILL AND MATTHEW LITWIN

    “I purchased all of the cars I own brand new, except my truck and 1972 Pontiac Le Mans Sport convertible,” Cathy Stewart confesses as she walks towards an oversize garage that shields her vintage vehicle collection from the elements. A former school music teacher whose retirement is anything but sedate (she’s currently a big band leader and a respected member of her Guilford, Connecticut, community because of her charitable fundraising activities), Cathy excitedly tells us of the events that led her to purchase the car gracing these pages: an Aztec Gold 1972 Pontiac Le Mans Sport convertible.

    “I already had my 1968 Pontiac Firebird convertible, a four-speed 350. But, when the 1972 models were introduced, it was right about the time for my late husband and I to buy a new car. With the new models came news that this was supposed to be the last year anyone was going to make a convertible. Well, I love convertibles,

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