Every Mail Route Has a Car Show — You Just Have to Notice

Car and Driver has turned its attention to a mail carrier who spots old, forgotten cars parked along his daily route, each one a small trip back through memory. The piece opens with Epictetus rather than a spec sheet, citing the Stoic's line that people are troubled by their opinions of things, not by the things themselves — a fitting way into a job spent looking twice at what everyone else drives past without a glance. It is a small argument for a bigger truth this magazine holds close: the cars worth noticing are not only the ones crossing an auction block. Sometimes they are simply still there, in someone's driveway, waiting to be seen.

With reporting from Car and Driver.