This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN – Jan. 2, 2015) — Arthur Lampitt wouldn ...

(AP) -- Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck. This week during surgery in suburban St. Louis, a 7-inch turn signal lever from that T ...

Call it a turning point. For more than 50 years, an Illinois man had - unbeknownst to him at first - a 7-inch turn-signal lever from a 1963 Thunderbird stuck in his left forearm after an almost fatal ...

(CNN) — Arthur Lampitt wouldn’t consider himself a car aficionado, but his car was a part of him: He lived with a turn signal stuck lever in his arm for 51 years. He was driving his tan Thunderbird to ...

CHICAGO — Arthur Lampitt wouldn’t consider himself a car aficionado, but his car was a part of him: He lived with a turn signal stuck lever in his arm for 51 years. He was driving his tan Ford ...

Classic car collectors might want to give Arthur Lampitt a call: The 75-year-old from Illinois just had the turn signal lever from a 1963 Thunderbird removed from his arm. In 1963, Lampitt survived a ...