2002—Auto Museum |
Nostalgia nearly overmastered me, upon encountering (but apparently not photographing) in Reno’s National Automobile Museum a 1941 Chevy Super-Deluxe, with Vacuum-Assisted Gear-Shifting on the Steering Column. Just like my lost, beloved Hesperus. A much more interesting vehicle than the indistinguishable, hypersecuritolatrous, computer-designed gimcracks we’re stuck with these days, grumped he, wheezily. Then adjusted his toupée and limped off into the estival solstitial twilight… |
Matthew was a good sport, despite anticipatory anxieties. |
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