Pat Corrigan, pilot and Porsche enthusiast, with two of his preferred modes of transport.
Rancher Pat Corrigan is a man of many hats, but not all of them are Stetsons. As well as owning one of the largest ranches in Indian River County, he is an oilman, citrus grower, big-game hunter, pilot and race-car driver. If he sounds like a combination of Hemingway and James Bond — well, in 1956 he actually met the great Ernest at Abercrombie & Fitch in New York, where both men were being outfitted for a safari.
Long before he had dreams of Africa, 14-year-old Pat made a more modest trek from his home in Midland, Texas, to Vero Beach. The year was 1943, World War II was raging, and his oilman father Hugh Corrigan, Jr. — known to everyone as “Pops” — had decided to visit Florida. At the time Pat’s older brother, Hugh III, was stationed at a wartime Coast Guard station on Wabasso Beach.
Read the entire article in the January 2005 issue
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