Special Ride Home

Third graders at Essex Elementary School watch as a 1952 Mercedes-Benz Cabriolet B pulls up to the school Friday to pick up their classmate, Maddy Marron, for a special ride home from school. Maddy won the prize -- a ride in one of Essex car restorer Paul Russell's vintage cars -- in last year's PTO benefit auction. She was accompanied on the ride by her mother, grandfather and her little brother, Alex. When asked what she thought of the car, Maddy said, "I love it." MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo

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