Car Culture
My first car was a Canary Yellow 1951 Chevy Deluxe. I was 16 years old and my mom cosigned so I could own it. This was in the early 1980s when all my friends (the ones who had graduated from the rural school bus in Out in the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, KS) had Cameros and Trans Ams, so my choice of chariot fit with my decidedly nonconformist stance as a kid. I painted it Candy Apple Red and my mom arranged a vanity l…