Category: Every car is a story.
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WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU
Hardly ever is a certified letter from an attorney you’ve never heard of a sign of good things to come. “We regret to inform you of the passing of your great uncle, Buford Ludlow, earlier this year . . .” the letter started. Luke Bynum was not immediately filled with any emotion other than mystery…
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THE SANDS OF TIME
Mayor Goodman had kind of a running competition with his wife’s cousin going all the way back to their high school days. Always attempting to one-up each other. Going out to dinner with them and their wives was difficult, each trying to get the upper hand on the other with just about any topic that…
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A SUNBURN IN MONTEREY
When Connie-Jean was asked to travel to Denver in order to attend training on a new punch-card system for the DMV office, she was reluctant to go. She’d barely ever left Fort Stockton, much less the state of Texas. But, being the only female in the office, she felt a pressure to perform. Besides, a…
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UNCLE LOWELL’S IMPALA
Hard to look at this and not see it through the filter of yellowed Kodachrome, parked in the shade of the driveway in front of the grandparent’s bungalow. Uncle Lowell had bought it brand new off the showroom floor of Longhorn Chevrolet in Wichita Falls just a couple days before heading back home to Fort…
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A SPARTAN ROYAL VALENTINE
When Mac Woodling returned from WW II the only thing on his mind was marrying Alma, his high school sweetheart from Jim Bowie High School (“Home of the Fightin’ Knives”). Once that mission was accomplished, he set about trying to find his life’s calling. He’d inherited 80 acres off Highway 285 and eventually he and…
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ON A LARK
“If the world was made up of only people who drove Fords and Chevys it would be a pretty boring place.” That’s what Huck Delmont used to say anytime someone made a comment about him driving a Studebaker. No one could deny that Huck’s ’62 Lark wasn’t a looker. The Poly Brown Metallic convertible was…
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BEYOND THE GALAXIE
I swear this Ford has been stirring up trouble in Fort Stockton for longer than anyone can remember, going all the way back to the day it came off the auto hauler in 1965. Much like Mayberry, Fort Stockton was a firm believer that Law & Order was best preserved from behind the wheel of…
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LATE NIGHT FLIGHT
In Fort Stockton, if you’re demanding and don’t have the bank account to back it up, you’re labeled a pain in the arse. If you have the means, you’re called eccentric. Digger Klein was a man of good, if very particular taste. He had the funds to fulfill most any desire, but always demanded things…
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DELGADO’S DUECE AND A QUARTER
Deuce Braxton went with his dad to pick up the Buick Electra he’d ordered six weeks earlier. Deuce was only five, but remembered the rest of his life seeing the ’63 convertible, top down, waiting for them at the dealership when they pulled up. Arctic white over red. Seemed as long as the driveway to…
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HIGHER EDUCATION
When Kyle Kingwood gave the valedictory speech at his graduation from Jim Bowie High School in June of 1974 he was a virgin, a baptist, and the smartest kid in the auditorium. Two years later, at the end of his sophomore year at The University of Texas, he was no longer any of those. …