Driving Southern

Life in Cars

Ralph Bland, Michael Braswell, Ralph Bland, Michael Braswell

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781666746822
  9781666746839
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666746846
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Corvettes and Thunderbirds are parked next to Studebakers, Beetles, and, in some cases, cars that may defy description of any kind in this collection of twenty-six original essays and stories about first cars, family cars, and even dream cars that traveled the highways and backroads of the authors' lives. Often hilarious, sometimes bittersweet, the stories are about growing up--although for some of us, where cars and trucks are concerned, we never quite do.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 See the USA
• 2 Love at First Ride
• 3 My Horseless Carriage
• 4 Mabel’s Driving Rules
• 5 A View from the Tailgate of an El Camino
• 6 Viva the Vega and Other Cars I Loved
• 7 Mustang Sally
• 8 Hello, Goodbye
• 9 From Beatlemania to Wildfire on I-40
• 10 The Car Makes the Man
• 11 My Foreign Affairs
• 12 Mopar Madness
• 13 Automobilitis
• 14 My First Car
• 15 A Jeep Named Willys
• 16 The Heap
• 17 A Wild Maverick
• 18 Growing Up Buick
• 19 The Mercury Man
• 20 My Camaro Romance
• 21 Thunder Road and Beyond
• 22 Nice While It Lasted
• 23 Corvette Crazy
• 24 The VW Campmobile
• 25 My Cars
• 26 God’s Four Plus One