J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.

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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.

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

1969 Volkswagen Deer Isle, Maine

From Jonathan Welsh: "This sunworn bug caught our attention in Deer Isle Village in part because it was parked with the engine running (and a sweet passenger). The distinctive sounds and smells of its air-cooled flat four gave Alexa and me flashbacks. We figure our families owned at least four Beetles and a Karmann Ghia from the '50s through the '70s. My mother drove a red '73 and said learning to shift a Beetle meant you could drive anything."
AL caught another VW on Deer Isle. Maybe our favorite car down on the island was this 1961 Chrysler New Yorker, aka the batmobile.








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