Illinois Man Goes Under the Knife to Remove Thunderbird Turn Signal in Arm for 51 Years

More than half a century ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, was driving his 1963 Thunderbird when he crashed right into a truck. He survived the crash with a broken hip, which he recovered from. Apparently, that crash would haunt him again 51 years later.

Lampitt underwent surgery on Wednesday to remove a mysterious metal object from his left arm. A long, pencil-like object which turned out to be none other than the 7-inch turn signal lever from his old T-bird so many years ago.

Flashback to that fateful night in 1963 when Lampitt drove his brand new T-bird head-on to a truck in East Peoria. The crash was so serious, that it was erroneously reported as a fatality over the local airwaves at the time.