The Dead Travel Fast

Title:
The Dead Travel Fast

Description:
Every class or type of car carries with it its own aura and a select few types have become trademarks for certain groups of fictional characters. Undercover Miami detectives use Italian supercars, international spies use British sports cars and criminals (or post apocalyptic warriors) use muscle cars. However, pre-muscle car era American cars (the "tail fin" era, so to speak) are synonymous with the unnatural, the unholy and the undead. They wont win any races, but you can bet if the Grim Reaper ever uses a car, he'd have the trunk of a 1950s era American car lined with souls. Like a medieval black knight or gothic castle, their aura seems to ooze evil. Few people recognize this as well as Stephen King does. More often than not, if the antagonists of his works drive cars, it's 50s era American. In Sometimes They Come Back, a group of bullies return from Hell in their trusty, black 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air, with flame stripes on the front fenders. The undead bullies use their Bel-Air to great effect in tormenting the man responsible for their deaths. In Christine, the car itself is the antagonist. She's an evil succubus in the form of a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury (although they use various Savoys and Belvederes in the movie to portray her. Not a single true '58 Fury shows up in the movie) who forces her owners to fall in love with her, then pushes away and kills all those around them. In Riding The Bullet, the protagonist meets up with George Staub, a dead man turned Grim Reaper. Staub also uses a red and white Plymouth Fury, but it's a 1960 model, not a 1958. Staub uses his Fury (an actual Fury, unlike the impersonators in Christine) to hound the main character and try to drive him back to the Underworld with him.

Author:
Idoloish

Tags:
The, Dead, Travel, Fast, 1955, 1958, 1960, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Bel-Air, Fury, George, Staub, Arnie, Arnnie, Cunningham, American, America, old, cars, MOPAR, Chrysler, Dodge, Christine,