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ACCIDENTAL CUSTODIAN; The best car in the world . . . make that 25 of the best.(Revs)
Byline: PHIL BERG
These days, Harry Yeaggy acts like a lottery winner, as if he's still trying to figure out why he's the lucky guy who wound up with the best car in the world. He seems embarrassed that fate chose him as the keeper of the last breath of the dying Duesenberg car company, the so-called Mormon Meteor, a 1935 speed-record special that won Best of Show at Pebble Beach last August.
"I never dreamed of this. I've been reading AutoWeek since 1970, and now I'm on the cover,'' Yeaggy said of our Sept. 3, 2007, issue ("What a Duesey!'').
He's accepted the challenge of being the preserver of some of the best cars in the world, too. For example, the car that saved the Corvette from death gets maintained on the lift in his spotless 25-car garage. The all-original '56 Corvette was the first ever to win a race and showed GM that the slow-selling Corvette had promise.
Not many people have seen Yeaggy's garage, partly because he is admittedly not a social hound. "I know I should have more people in,'' he said, "but I just don't do that sort of ...
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