Shortly after Fred Schritt retired from building and racing custom motorcycles, he came across an old vehicle that reminded him of “Mater” from the movie, Cars. He fixed the vehicle up in his own style and renamed it “the Peppermint Kid,” and put it on a post outside the body shop he ran in Grand Island, Nebraska. A Volkswagen-turned-Fokker-Triplane followed, with the Red Baron and Snoopy trying to get each other in their sights. Then another car and another were added to the growing collection. By the time he passed…
