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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, September 12, 2014

Tommy Hilfiger, and a 1950 Plymouth; 1948 Dodge; 1948 Chrysler Windsor. And what purpose breather caps?


        I was driving the GMC back from Kennebunkport where it was working on a Tommy Hilfiger fashion shoot. That truck is earning its keep. Somehow--and before I'd dropped off the truck with Tommy's crew--the A/T fluid dipstick got broken. Talk about obscure automotive dilemmas.  So on my way north(east) I planned to check in with Jeff Whitney at Whitney's Automotive in North Windham. They had a bundle of A/T sticks, and though it was a Sunday, Jeff Jr. had agreed to search for one that would fit my truck. 
       Heading north out of Portland on US Route 302, I spied this Mopar trio--a Plymouth, a Dodge, and a Chrysler--in Westbrook, and had to pull over. I would guess the Plymouth is a 1950. The other two a couple years earlier. Correct me if I'm wrong. 
         I retrieved an A/T dipstick at No. Windham, bought a breather oil filler cap at AutoZone in Belfast, and made it home to Brooklin. Opinions on breather caps? Seems to me that the 350 engine burns less oil when I use one. 


















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