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Gatsby's Ride

+ +It's 2022 now, and Jay Gatsby lived and died 100 years ago. I first read F. +Scott Fitzgerald's classic _The Great Gatsby_ in high school, right before the +2013 film with Leonardo DiCaprio came out. It was one of the few "school books" +that my friends and I were actually really into. It was fun having the film +trailers to help visualize what we were reading. As a car guy, one of the +attractions of the story was the time period and, more specifically, its cars. + +The characters drive a variety of classics from the early teens and twenties. +Gatsby's car plays an important role in the plot (which I won't spoil but come +on, it's only been around longer than you or I have). But I find the car's +description and its recreation in film over the years to be wildly different and +fascinating. So let's take a closer look at Gatsby's ride. + +This is what Fitzgerald has to say about Gatsby's car: + +> I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with +> nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant +> hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of +> windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of +> glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town. + +> 'It was a yellow car,' he said, 'big yellow car. New... No, but the car passed +> me down the road, going faster'n forty. Going fifty, sixty.' + +There's not much more to go on except the color is repeated a few times. What an +awesome description. And it's exactly what you'd expect from cars of the rich +and famous from the early to mid twenties: nickel plating, multiple windshields, +probably open-air, lots of accessory boxes, and Gatsby's trademark flamboyant +colors. And it's fast (your typical Model T Ford topped out at about 40-45 MPH). + + + +![Gatsby's Rolls](https://www.imcdb.org/i003884.jpg) +![Gatsby's Dusenberg](https://www.imcdb.org/i505296.jpg) -- cgit v1.2.3