Contributing Writer
PRINCETON – In the early 1960s, a family trip to the Princeton Antique Automobile Museum in Princeton, proved to be an exciting adventure for then-10-year-old Michael Perna Jr. His parents were friendly with the museum’s founder and owner at the time, Albert Garganigo, who had grown up in Shrewsbury.
Garganigo, who had started out owning the Turnpike Garage and Auto Wrecking business, located near the corner of what is now Route 9 and South Quinsigamond Avenue, started collecting what began to become known as “old” cars in the era around World War I. He eventually opened an antique auto museum on the site. The brick building that housed the museum is still there, home to a number of commercial enterprises…