Jack Kerouaac and Neal Cassady's Car

harry54

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Interesting sight....

Jon B

This is the actual car? Somehow I'd sort of figured it would have been a bit more trashed out when they got through with it...

hudsontech

Jon B wrote:

This is the actual car? Somehow I'd sort of figured it would have been a bit more trashed out when they got through with it...

Not the original car - says it's a model LIKE the car they drove. In the book Kerouac says its a 1949 Hornet.

The actual car, from what I can find out, was so beat up it literally died and was left abandoned on a Denver street.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

bob ward

I bought a copy of On the Road from a yard sale recently. I know its supposed to be a classic and all that but I found it heavy going.

hudsontech

bob ward wrote:

I bought a copy of On the Road from a yard sale recently. I know its supposed to be a classic and all that but I found it heavy going.

Kerouac's writting is rather hard to get thru - tho I may have had less trouble than, say, a person "younger" than I am. I can identify with that time period because I was at the "right" age, being 14, 15, 16 in the early 50's. Even in small town Maine we knew about the beat generation, and after 1955 came across it more often than not in places in the states where I was stationed in the Navy.

One of the biggest problems with another era, and trying to understand it, is you have to take yourself out of the current time period and try to put yourself in the period you are interested in. 1950, for example, is very much different - one might say it was on another planet - than 2000.

Still a good book, interesting, and a little sad - if you can transport yourself back to that era.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

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in the book the car gets repo'd after neal flakes on the payments. whether it is mirrored in life i have no idea. i hauled through that book in 3 sittings and my housemates are doing a similar job of it. oh to live in those days in that setting, that first ride west is something i could only ever imagine, no way would you get away with that now

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hudsontech wrote:

Kerouac's writting is rather hard to get thru - tho I may have had less trouble than, say, a person "younger" than I am. I can identify with that time period because I was at the "right" age, being 14, 15, 16 in the early 50's. Even in small town Maine we knew about the beat generation, and after 1955 came across it more often than not in places in the states where I was stationed in the Navy.

One of the biggest problems with another era, and trying to understand it, is you have to take yourself out of the current time period and try to put yourself in the period you are interested in. 1950, for example, is very much different - one might say it was on another planet - than 2000.

Still a good book, interesting, and a little sad - if you can transport yourself back to that era.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Alex, I once heard that in fact Kerouac actually couldn't drive. Don't know if it's true.

hudsontech

Hudzilla wrote:

Alex, I once heard that in fact Kerouac actually couldn't drive. Don't know if it's true.

I think you're right - beleive Cassidy did the driving.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Browniepetersen

About four years ago a movie was made on the famed 25th street in Ogden, Utah called "The Last Time I committed sucide." It started Kauna Reves and a dark haired beauty from China Beach fame. It was about Jack Kerouac's life. I had a few of my cars in the movie, but Steven Key the director decided to use a 1949 Mecury convertible for the "Star" car for the movie. You might want to check the "B" section of your movie shop for a copy. Not a bad flick and it does help to explain why Jack Kerouac was considered the first of the Hippies and the one to start the movement.

Richard E.

My memory of the book is that it was a convertible??



Read the book as if you are listening to a jazz recording. That is what is unique about Kerouac's writing. It has a beat. Otherwise the story is rather grim

bob ward

There are instances in the book where Kerouac talks about himself taking turns with the driving.

There is a line, don't know where, where he says he does not have a licence. Don't know if that is a permanent or temporary situation

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I think that's one of those books that reads better when you're younger.....I read it back in the sixties and was inspired. Now I'm more into Moby Dick...............He definitely captured something about the vastness of America though.....Bob