The famous Mercurys are the next generation of lead-sled era cars with the original sleekness applied by Ford Motor Company then developed by a couple of generations of hot rod & custom guys. This 1946 Merc isn't sleek, but it was a welcome sight on a grey day in Maine March with the first drip/splash of mud season out here on the Wolfe's Neck Road. Kind of a warmish day, maybe 41 degrees, and suddenly Maine cars are breaking out of the barns. This one has a pretty close to original body; most of the running gear is from a mid-90s Crown Victoria. The engine was a tight fit, but a fit.
Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
PHB
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- Brooklin, Maine, United States
- We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.
Friday, March 21, 2014
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