Category: Every car is a story.
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ANNABELLE’S PORTRAIT
Annabelle Hornsworthy was widowed at a young age, one of the hazards (some would say benefits) of being a young trophy wife married to a ‘more seasoned’ gentleman. Harrison Hornsworthy, her late husband, had been just as effective at playing markets as he was playing the field. When he keeled over, victim of an apparent…
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FINAL FLIGHT
“Did they offer you the Buyout Package?” Dalton, the design exec in the plaid suit, asked his buddy in the break room. “Yeah,” his friend, Bob, nodded. “Thought I could dodge the bullet one more time, but they caught me on this one.” “You takin’ it?” “Yeah. Gonna hang it up,” Dalton responded. “My wife…
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THE MINOR ROYAL
Now this is an example of someone thinking ‘outside the box’, both literally and figuratively, and then having the skills to follow it through to make it all come together in the end. Slow golf clap to all involved. It’s good to see one that turned out well, having seen one that, well, let’s just…
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DOUBLE ‘OH HEAVENS’
Now this is one you never see in Fort Stockton. Well, I take that back. There used to be a couple of these back in the day that ran the security detail out at The Facility. Seems like they may have had a Slate Grey version as well. Pretty sure they never had a red one, but then…
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STARDUST
Marguerite Ann Moore left Fort Stockton after graduation from Our Lady of Immeasurable Concern. It wasn’t personal, she just felt like she’d seen all there was to see in town, and that there wasn’t all that much to leave behind. Her parents had raised her to be a free thinker and let her go. On…
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GOING WITH THE (AIR) FLOW
“Hard to believe these were controversial when they were new,” New Guy said. He seemed to be in kind of a reflective mood. Like he was longing for something he’d never get back. Rusty Hammer, reading the morning news from his iPad, noted that the US is being invaded by the spotted lanternfly, a bug native to…
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MARQUIS de SADIE
Sadie Sommerville special-ordered her ’77 Grand Marquis Hardtop from over at Frontier Ford, “Home of the Straight Shootin’ Deal”, because she’d seen the ads for it on TV and thought it was the most beautiful car she’d ever seen. It was the biggest, nicest car she’d ever bought and she picked out just the two…
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FINISHING FIRST
This Bad Boy looks like the love child of Richard Petty and Virgil Exner. And to think there used to be one nearly identical in Fort Stockton. ‘Piston’ Pawley used to race one just like it out at the Proving Grounds dern near every Saturday night, only exceptions being the weekends he had to drive to…
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CASCADA OF CONSEQUENCES
Dotty Dornan was at a crossroads in 1963, and things were spinning out of her control. Dotty got her son Hank back to college at Abilene Christian and then drove her ’62 Electra back home, parked it under the carport, and focused solely on only two things: her newest romance novel, Murder on the Side, and…
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PARTS & SERVICE
Some thought the story of Dotty Dornan was finished in 1959. It had really only begun. “As Gwendolyn swam nearer to him, his strong arms grasped her at the waist and lifted her out of the water, her heaving breasts breaking the surface of the lake and presenting themselves as an offering. The sun glistened off…