In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

69 There’s an old Impala, and a Ghostbusters station wagon.There’s a car that looks like it’s right out of the pages of the Great Gatsby—it even has wooden wheelspokes. Naturally, there is a jeep fully equipped with machine gun and cannon. But there’s also a little vintage teardrop trailer, hitched to aVolkswagen Bug. There’s a shop selling expensive ladies’ clothes, but I too want to look like I’m on the set of Grease, so I peruse. As I do, an announcer calls them, Clothes from when ladies looked like ladies and didn’t just give it all away. On the way home from the classic car show, we get stuck in traffic behind all the Studebakers and El Caminos and Model-As pulling away, but I get a chance to admire the chrome angel ornament on the front of a Rolls-Royce before it occurs to me, itching, that I could canoe faster than this. At a party in one of the fancy mansions on Center Street, the owner of the Rolls, dressed all in white, describes that as his “around town” car. So, I say, knocking back a mint julep. I take it you’re not from around here. it was a very hot july ...

Share