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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
The sight of Herman Zapp driving his 1928 Graham-Paige automobile up to the New Jersey entrance to the Holland Tunnel one recent Monday afternoon was enough to bring the toll-booth attendant out of his automated fog.
"You driving this?" he said as Herman forked over six dollars and goosed the engine to keep it from stalling. Candelaria, Herman's wife, sat in the passenger seat with their five-year-old son, Pampa, on her lap and aimed a digital video camera out the windshield. Their two-year-old, Tehue, sat in a car seat behind Herman, clutching a figurine of Ned Flanders from "The Simpsons," which had been procured at a Burger King in Jersey City....
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