drifting away…
The Marquis wasn’t always crashed. By Buicks. Or curbs at Bilbo’s. It wasn’t always bald, as the vinyl roof got peeled off like it was a meth addict.
Summer Daze
Marquis
One born every minute
Look what you can get on Craigslist for just $3000!
1978 Mecury (sic.) Grand Marquis suuuuupr nice.
Where have we seen this before? On eBay, being sold from a tow yard. (Check the mismatched tires to the January picture.) It sold in January for about 700. then it was relisted and “sold” in the last 60 days or so. Then it was put up at their local auction last week.
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Somewhere in the wasted haze of being 20 something, I decided that maybe shit jobs at the car wash and the BK lounge were not all that satisfying. Pod and OG were finishing college. Phid’s college career was as off the tracks as mine, but we had community college bullshit. His job at one restaurant […]
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Good Night, Sweet Prince
“Now cracks a noble oil pan heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to the junk yard thy rest.” – Horatio Caine on Mel Gibson (Hamlet, act V, scene ii) It was 20 years ago today (give or take) that the 1976 Mercury Marquis bit it. Phi Sigma Kappa from CMU came […]
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