Gowen, high school sweetheart on wheels reunited

Aurora man set to restore ‘70 Dodge Challenger he sold over 45 years ago

Bill Gowen stands next his red 1970 Dodge Challenger in his garage in Aurora. He originally bought and modified the car in high school and is excited to restore it in coming days.
Bill Gowen stands next his red 1970 Dodge Challenger in his garage in Aurora. He originally bought and modified the car in high school and is excited to restore it in coming days.

Forty-six years after he sold the red 1970 Dodge Challenger A-66 he owned in high school, Bill Gowen finally has the car back and plans to make restoring it one of his retirement projects. Two weeks ago, Gowen retired after 46 years at Aurora Cooperative and, in addition to building a lake cabin and a shop, hopes to go through the Challenger piece by piece.  “I just made sure that I kept trac…