Kurt Matter and his wife Joanie take their 1959 Triumph for a spin at their home near Kettle Falls. (SR photo: Tyler Tjomsland)

This is the story of an old car and the family that loves it. Not just any old car. Kurt and Joanie Matter’s beloved automobile is a low-slung 1959 blue British roadster, a heads-in-the-breeze Triumph TR3 that carried this Kettle Falls couple from the church on the day of their 1971 wedding and ferried them on many adventures, both good and bad. Like the time after Kurt’s pro football career ended and they drove the roadster from Los Angeles to Seattle without a clutch. Or the Sunday afternoon they clobbered a deer head-on and sat in shock as the luckless critter flew luckily over their heads. “The car’s bug-eye headlights were pointing at each other and sitting on top of the radiator,” recalled Joanie/Doug Clark, SR. More here.

Question: Which car of your yesterdays do you wish you still owned?