(Re)Taking to Wing

If you’ve owned a car for a while—any car—you invariably amass related items. Whether it’s spare parts to keep it running or endless collectible tchotchkes that recall the vehicle in question, and whether those parts live in basements, attics, rafters, or on display shelves, often those leftover items remain with us long after the car itself has disappeared from our lives.

Which helps explain the set of wine glasses that are in Ken Nowicki’s possession. It’s not usual old-car fare, particularly not these days, when any possible combination of drinking and driving (stated or implied) is firmly out of fashion. Even so, these six crystal goblets—each with a Thunderbird logo etched into the glass, placed carefully in a red-velvet-lined hardback case about half the size of a briefcase—are indirectly