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| Front end of a Model T Ford from the Steinbeck Museum in Salinas, CA. |
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| Interior of a Model T Ford (taken at the Steinbeck Museum in Salinas, CA). |
Gay was an inspired mechanic. There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works. Indeed there are men near whom a car runs better. (Steinbeck 57)
Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. (Steinbeck 61)
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