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Portrait and vintage car on a shoulder
Realism · Shoulder · Black and grey · Photo
A smiling man with slicked-back hair is shown in a grey portrait, with a vintage car drawn in the lower part of the design. Soft shading builds the face and clouds or smoke behind the figure, while the car is outlined with clear linework. The design is entirely in black and grey ink and fills the upper back and shoulder area.
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Right, settle down, the sausage rolls are coming round again, and I'll tell you about the summer Dennis Marrable bought a dead Zephyr off a farmer in Ashby for eleven pounds and a promise to sing at the man's daughter's wedding. Nobody in the Lower Fourth thought he'd get it past the end of Vicarage Lane.
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He spent six weekends in the yard behind his dad's bakery, sleeves rolled, Brasso on his knuckles, while Mrs Lusk watched him from her front room and said it was a disgrace to the street. Then one Sunday the engine caught on the third turn. The whole road came out to see it. Dennis gunned it up the hill, and the exhaust rolled off the back of that cream and black bonnet in a long grey bank, like the bakery had caught fire and he was driving out of the smoke.
It never got further than the bottom of Vicarage Lane. The brakes went, and he ended up nose first in Mr Hebden's privet, grinning through the windscreen with a cut lip. He told anyone who came to look that the going was the best bit and the arriving was just paperwork.
They say the car's still under a tarpaulin in his mum's barn, bonnet up, waiting on a part nobody can find. I've never been out to look. Pass the urn along, Pauline, and mind your hand on the tap, it's hotter than it has any right to be.
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