Antique Car Poems

sleeping in my car in the snow
subzero temperature with frozen snot and drool
so dark in the weary silver car that it feels like life is...

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No one knew what kind of car she was because she was an antique.
She had a mind of her own, a colorful one at that,...

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A body of chipped paint and red rust,
A weathered windshield under the dust 

Steering wheel aims in one last turn,
Dashboard suffers from many a sunburn...

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Back in the 1990s, my wife and I spent a couple years - and thousands of dollars - completely restoring a 1958 Chevrolet Impala convertible....

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This piece was inspired by a true story about a man who searched for several years to find, and buy back, a very particular car...

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lube yourself up car
young one searches frantically
cannot find gas tank
oil tell him says my man
it is behind license plate...

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Spend, spend, spend, spend
  Buy whatever you crave
It's old-fashioned to save
  You might wait 'til your grave-

stone is finished before you've enough
 ...

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In nineteen-eighty-five, so long ago,
a dark red B M W became
our son and wife's new car in Germany
while stationed there as Army officers.

Though many cars...

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An old hulk sitting on barren land.
Many times it was sold and bought.
A '32 Ford Five Window,
now all rusted and left to rot.

At one time...

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Went up into the attic,
Espied a load of junk.
Thought I'd have a car boot sale,
Before we did a bunk.
Piled it all into the car,
Glad I...

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Really cool engine with velocity voluptuousity
Antique like me, bronze teeth, with grill reflections
Car goes round and round doing eternal lefts
Egos and racers can't go right...

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He saw a blurry, little light
At the distant tunnel’s end: 
A dream or a reality in sight?
Stay or go on? He demanded. 

The lonely trip,...

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A summer Saturday night brings them all out grates shining
spit polished chrome, driven by bald men with pates shining.

Candy apple red antique corvettes with white...

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There was an old man
Who smoked a cigar.
He sped across the country
In an old wooden car.
He drove to the markets, 
Known as "Number One Star".
He...

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