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I found a curious article at my local paper 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, page A2
Car part removed from man’s arm
Associated Press
Creve Coeur, MO. – Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck. This week during surgery in suburban St. Louis, a 7-inch turn signal level from that T-Bird was removed from his arm.
Dr. Timothy Lang removed the lever Wednesday during a 45-minute operation. Lampitt, now 75, is recovering at home.
The accident broke Lampitt’s hip, drawing attention away from the arm, which healed.
A decade or so ago, his arm set off a metal detector at a courthouse. A X-ray showed a slender object the length of a pencil, but since it caused no pain or hardship, Lampitt was told to let it be.
He was moving concrete blocks a few weeks ago when the arm began to hurt for the first time.
Lampitt decided to have surgery. He initially wasn’t sure what was in the arm. He wondered if perhaps a medical instrument had been left during the emergency room visit in 1963.
He unearthed a collection of old photos of the mangled Thunderbird taken by a friend at the scene. He noticed the metal blinker lever was missing from the steering column. He figured that was it, and surgery at City Place Surgery Center in Creve Coeur, Missouri, confirmed it.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, page A2
Car part removed from man’s arm
Associated Press
Creve Coeur, MO. – Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck. This week during surgery in suburban St. Louis, a 7-inch turn signal level from that T-Bird was removed from his arm.
Dr. Timothy Lang removed the lever Wednesday during a 45-minute operation. Lampitt, now 75, is recovering at home.
The accident broke Lampitt’s hip, drawing attention away from the arm, which healed.
A decade or so ago, his arm set off a metal detector at a courthouse. A X-ray showed a slender object the length of a pencil, but since it caused no pain or hardship, Lampitt was told to let it be.
He was moving concrete blocks a few weeks ago when the arm began to hurt for the first time.
Lampitt decided to have surgery. He initially wasn’t sure what was in the arm. He wondered if perhaps a medical instrument had been left during the emergency room visit in 1963.
He unearthed a collection of old photos of the mangled Thunderbird taken by a friend at the scene. He noticed the metal blinker lever was missing from the steering column. He figured that was it, and surgery at City Place Surgery Center in Creve Coeur, Missouri, confirmed it.
In French, we would say: "il avait sa voiture dans la peau" 
(Which is oddly -and more or less- the opposite of saying "his car was getting under his skin", which eventually became true too
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(Which is oddly -and more or less- the opposite of saying "his car was getting under his skin", which eventually became true too
)
Muscle car as muscle arm