Life-long Wiltonian is a life-long 'car guy' - Wilton Bulletin
Peter Egan, an ex-columnist at Road & Track Magazine, once wrote about the idea of a cylinder count, that if you were a car lover, you could measure your gear-headedness by counting up the number of cylinders you own, including those in the... If Paul Bonomo, owner and founder of Cannondale Generators in Wilton, did that, his gear-head might explode, what with his warehouse full of gas generators and his garage overflowing with vintage vehicles. Bonomo graduated from Wilton High School with the Class of ’64. His three sons, Bill, Paul and Stephen, also attended the school. Bill and Paul live in Wilton, while Stephen lives in Redding. Bonomo founded Cannondale Generators in 1990 with his wife, Yolanda, and runs it with the help of his sons, who will be equal partners once he retires, a process that is already underway, he said. Start your engines For Bonomo, things changed forever when his uncle bought a Chevrolet Corvette in 1960. “I loved the sound of it, the ‘sportiness’ of it. They only made something like 8,000 of them back then. Ever since he brought that Corvette home with him, I’ve been into cars,” he said. From racecar driver Luigi Chinetti opening the first stateside Ferrari dealership in Greenwich, to Wilton being a mere hour away from New York City, the main import location of foreign sports cars, Bonomo, it would seem, was living in a... Source: www.wiltonbulletin.com
