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Merle Mullin, an artist/designer from Los Angeles, on her 1957 Ford Thunderbird, as told to A.J. Baime.

On the occasion of my first anniversary with my husband Peter, in 2001, we had dinner at the Hotel Bel-Air. After, I asked the valet for my BMW station wagon. He returned with this beautiful white Thunderbird. I said, “This is not my car.” My husband said, “I guess you’d better get in and drive it home.”

I figured out…