In February, the Times Leader published a vintage photo of several people who posed in Forty Fort with a Model T Ford and its owner, Joe Phillips of Gouldsboro.

The photo was part of a yellowed newspaper clipping that Phillips, an octogenarian and antique car buff, had saved for decades.

The photo, likely taken by John L. Edwards, owner of the former West Side News, and published in that weekly newspaper in 1960, showed Phillips behind the wheel of his 1918 Model T, surrounded by six people who had gathered to admire the car.

Earlier this year, Phillips thought he would like to find those people and try to recreate the photo.

Within hours of the Times Leader publishing a copy of the vintage photo in February, Bill Opet of suburban Philadelphia contacted the newspaper to say he was the

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