Man seen from behind in a black Lucky 13 t-shirt, with traditional tattoos of a rose, an anchor and a spider web on his forearms and upper arms.

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Traditional arm tattoos with a Lucky 13 tee

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A man is photographed from behind, wearing a black t-shirt with a white and red skull-in-top-hat hot rod print, and his head is cropped out of frame. His forearms and upper arms show bold tattoos with dark outlines and areas of red and green colour, including a rose and an anchor on the right arm and a spider web on the left. The plain studio background keeps the focus on the arms and the shirt graphic.

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Our Ned never wore a hat in his life until the summer the Gallaway boys brought the black roadster up from Kent, and then he wouldn't take it off, not even to sleep. It was a grey top hat bought from a widow for two shillings, and he said a man building a machine that fast ought to dress for the funeral.

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They ran the flats at Harrow Pan that August, where the salt goes white as a dinner plate and the heat stands up off it in sheets. Ned had a Ford engine bolted into a chassis he'd welded from a tractor gearbox and two bicycle wheels, and the Gallaways had a long green thing with a cream grille that could hold a hundred on the straight. Their mechanic was a tall lad called Pip who chewed liquorice and counted miles on his fingers.

With half a mile left, Ned's rear wheel started to walk. The car swung sideways, the hat lifted off his head, and I shut my eyes like a fool. When I opened them the roadster was sliding across the line between the flags, dead straight, with Ned sat upright at the wheel and the hat clamped down over his ears again.

He climbed out grinning and said the trick was keeping the head on. Pip found the hat three miles back, full of salt, and we nailed it to the garage wall above the bench, where it still is, the brim gone soft as bread.

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