By Dave Chapman

HURON TWP. — No matter how much you like your classic car, there are some reasons that you know it’s time for it to go. Rod Hopper, retired principal of Huron High School, was the proud owner of a 1966 Ford Mustang for years. Recently, it was replaced with a 1968 Ford Galaxie.

“I have had the Mustang for many years and had grown tired of it,” Hopper said. “Besides, it was a stick shift and my wife, Betty, couldn’t drive it. The new car is an automatic, so she can drive this car.”

Hopper found the car on Craigslist and purchased it from the third owner. It seems that Ford had bought the car back from its first owner with the car being used as a test vehicle for line-of-sight tests of the car with the top down. The engineer of the project purchased the car from Ford and kept it until he sold it to Hopper.