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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.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Sleeper: 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air. Not Your High School Principal's Car.

The best sleepers look like something a schoolteacher could be driving, and when I was at Lower Canada College, in Montreal, our headmaster drove a blue '66 Bel Air. Not this one however, which has been rigged as a Maine State Police highway cruiser of the era. (Staties' cars are still painted blue, but a different shade than this metallic. Kind of an innocuous baby blue, actually.  Watch out when you're on the Turnpike.) This car's for sale in Freeport Maine. Asking was $28900, or about the price of a Subaru Legacy. Call Neil 207 865 6269. I like sleepers. The Bel Air has it down. Looks like a stripper drives like a rocket. Only thing missing is a four-speed. Another classic of the genre:  this 1964 Chevrolet Biscayne 409.














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