The Brooklyn Paper has a cute report from this past weekend's Touch-a-Truck Fundraiser:
Three-year-old Siggy Rodgaard’s eyes sparkled with joy as perched inside Andrew Sarno’s vintage 1946 Ford tractor, and zoomed off along an imaginary highway.
“Whrrrrrrrrrr,” he chortled gleefully, spinning a steering wheel three times his size like a Jack in the Box on a candy high.
“I guess you don’t see a farm tractor in Brooklyn much,” joked Sarno, a 61-year-old carpenter from Park Slope and a member of the Antique Automobile Club, whose “Gray Lady” has been showcased at parades and festivals throughout the city, and even starred in an episode of “Law and Order.”
Ditmas Park aspiring hack Ben Landfield, 3, positioned himself behind the wheel of a tow truck from Ridge Towing, and perked up as he pretended to be the big man in a bigger buggy, while Windsor Terrace tot Landon Coe, 3, got an eye-popping peek at the workings of a Sanitation truck.
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