ABOVE SUSPICION, BY VICTORIA WEISFELDBoston, Conley Terminal, Sunday, March 18, 1990
Shortly before 9 a.m., Amit Madoor and his nephew Rashid arrived at the Port of Boston’s Conley Terminal in two vintage Cadillacs. Dockhands directed them to park in a cavernous prep bay, where they emptied the cars’s gasoline tanks and disconnected their batteries. A tow-truck maneuvered the two beauties into the open mouth of a steel shipping container and the workers clambered in behind to pack protective padding around and between them. End-to-end, the Caddies just about filled the forty-foot box.
Before the container was sealed, every dockworker having a spare minute strolled over to admire these cars—classics from 1956 and 1959—one purple and the other two-tone, turquoise and white. They peered thr
