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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.

Monday, April 6, 2015

1968 MGB. Portland, Maine.


Must be Spring, when you see a bee. I'm guessing it's a 1968 car--must have been just before the B was weighed down with ugly black impact bumpers, which more or less sunk the gestalt of the car. In fact I thought they wore them by '68, when they got those side lights. Some owners peeled off the black rubber ugliness and replaced it with the earlier edition chrome bumpers. I remember driving Maggie Glenn's MGB, summer of '67--Summer of Love-- in Ste-Marguerite Station, Quebec, though I was years from having a license. Sleek and nimble it was.
 Just realized now that Maggie's initials were--but of course--MG.










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