(Granite City, IL) — A Granite City man is recuperating after having a piece of his 1963 Thunderbird removed from his arm, where it had been for 51-years. Arthur Lampitt smashed his new T-Bird into a truck back then, but doctors concentrated on his broken hip, and the pencil-long piece of the turn signal lever stayed inside his arm which healed around it. Lampitt learned something was in his arm about ten years ago when he set off a metal detector at a courthouse, but it wasn’t until his arm started to swell recently that he decided to have it removed. Doctors say a protective pocket grew around the metal rod, preventing an infection for all those years. Lampitt, now 75, says he may have it made into a key chain.