It was distressing, in truth, to look upon, but it went.

Indeed, the proud owner had won a race with it from a too-outspoken critic who drove a much superior car.

It was Wilbur Cowan who first in Newbern discovered that you could speed up a car by dropping a few moth balls into the gasoline tank.

He called his car the Can, but, unreasonably, was not too cordial to others using the name.
The Can bore the pair to a fretful halt under the newest electric lights on River Street.

"The La Boheme" read the dazzling sign.