Category: Every car is a story.
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LBJ’S BORROWED CONTINENTALS
Buford down at Dusty Plains Savings & Loan married into money. No one ever faulted him for it, ‘cause he never let it go to his head. If your lottery ticket looks good in a swim suit, all the better. People said he never owned a pair of shoes until he hit junior high, but…
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CHAW AND BEATRIX TEMPT FATE
Chaw Bufflen was an able bodied man’s man. A rare breed of cowboy who knew both the rugged intricacies of a life lived on the open plains as well as the subtlest of plot twists in Shakespeare’s finest works. Living in a bunkhouse several miles west of Fort Stockton, his needs were primal and few. …
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VALIANT EFFORTS
Judy, Joyce, and Justine had gone through all twelve years of school together at Our Lady of Immeasurable Concern and graduated as a group in 1964. Joyce and Justine had gone off to college, Joyce at Texas Tech and Justine at UT. Each of them had found husbands and not returned to Fort Stockton. Only…
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LINCOLN RUNS WITH THE STARS
What a big bowl of ripe red cherries with a dollop of Cool-Whip on top this new offering appears to be. Without too much effort and no more than two Gibson cocktails, one can imagine this burgundy beast gliding past the HOLLYWOOD sign and heading up Sunset Boulevard. Behind the wheel is George Reeves, fresh…
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COOTER’S COURIER
While these are rarer than hen’s teeth these days, back in ’59 they were actually a fairly common sight in small Texas towns like Lefors. Fort Stockton had one that saw a fair amount of duty back in the day. Probably the most infamous story of its service in town was the day Cooter, Leroy,…
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MORE. NO, MORE. I WANT MORE!
Dateline: Late 1956, Detroit, MI “Have you seen what those bastards over at Chrysler have done?” Albert Clawson yelled as he lit one cigar off the glowing remains of an old one and chopped on it like it was a hot dog. Of course, all the other executives around the mahogany table had seen exactly…
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BROOKWOOD
Hunter Richardson washed the dust of Fort Stockton off once he left and never really looked back. He made his move to Houston and then his fortune. The place he’d grown up became like an old yellowed newspaper. He’d read the all stories and there was no point in re-reading any of them. He’d returned…
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SCOOP CLANCEY’S JEEP LOADER
Ol’ Scoops Clancey got a hold of one of these right after he bought the old Hart place north of town. It was an unusual choice for a ranch implement, but then Scoops was not one to worship at the alter of convention. He’d just shrug it off when folks around Fort Stockton suggested…
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CATCH A FALLING STARLINER
Back in late summer of ’56 Big Jim Tuttlebaum sent his only daughter, Talia, off to college at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. She was a beautiful girl, Texas born and bred with every advantage a man of wealth can offer a child, the spitting image of her gorgeous mother but with…
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CLIFFORD AND EARNEST TAKE A TRIP
Back in January of ’51 Clifford and Earnest, best friends since their time together in junior high at Our Lady of Immeasurable Concern, packed up Cliff’s old Plymouth Cranbrook and headed to New Mexico for an extended weekend ski trip. It started snowing outside Lubbock. By Amarillo it was a full blown blizzard and Cliff could…