WATCH: Man has car part removed from his arm decades after crash

CREVE COEUR, Mo. – A 75-year-old Illinois man has had an unusual surgery — to remove a 7-inch turn signal lever from his left arm.

Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck.

His fractured hip drew attention away from his injured arm, which eventually healed.

Lampitt’s wife Betty says everything was fine until her husband’s arm started getting bigger and hurt just a few weeks ago for the first time.

X-rays showed the lever in his arm.

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