On the Road Chapter 23

On the Road
Chapter 23 of 39
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Time frame	Summer 1952
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Locations

• MMSA including:
  • Matoon, Illinois
  • Herb Kralick Ford, Livonia, Michigan
  • Flat Rock, Michigan
  • Mt. Clemens, Michigan

Characters

• Mel Austin
• Spud McElroy
• Scotty Lombard
• Herb Kralick

• Lillian Eberle
• Frank Blixter
• Vivian Kralick
• John Adorney

• Dewey Blodgett
• Perk
• Chick Novesky

Summary

Dewey told that they'd put Dwight on a south-bound train and he might wake up around Memphis.

Lillian spent the next night with Dewey and then rotated through the crew.

In Livonia they used Herb Kralick's workshop to put the bigger gas tanks in the cars for fair season. The heard about Chick and Herb taking a group to be pit crew for Runt Chenowith at the Indianapolis 500.

Herb recommended John Adorney from the service department as twelfth driver and he was taken on after a tryout.

Also Mentioned

• Bessie Gigandet
• Squirt Chenowith

• Dwight
• Bud Gaborski

• Hattie and Susan

• Runt Chenowith