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Cats are totally into my books…as sleep aids.

This is Thistle:

This is Boggs:

Thanks to their owners for sending these photos.

Every now and then (just happened again today) someone who has just finished reading Truck: A Love Story requests that I post Before and After photos of my ’51 ‘Binder (that is to say, my 1951 International Harvester L-120 Model, 3/4-ton, long bed pickup truck).  We never did an official shoot but if you click on the photos below you’ll get the idea:

I have lost track if the number of emails I have received from readers who have gone in search of Truck: A Love Story at their local bookstore or library and eventually found it filed in the Automotive section between (as one reader put it) “the Chilton manuals and Peterson catalogs and coffee table books with pictures of great muscle cars of the 60s.”  This is a teeth-grinding problem*, and both my publisher and I are painfully aware of it.  The problem arose way back before the book came out, when the Library of Congress assigned it a primary classification of “Automotive Repair.”

Now then.  Anyone who has actually read Truck knows that when it comes to automotive matters I am a one-man Three Stooges act.  Continue reading this entry ⇒

This is the star of Truck: A Love Story.