Crazy story: a lonely kid goes on a summer road trip with his parents and ends up riding in a '55 Caddie with three "starlets" heading for the coast. His Norwegian parents are mortified to see him looking out the back window of the disappearing Caddie. It's all a mix-up, of course, and the story has a happy ending. One of the starlets ends up being famous on the silver screen.
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The kid had other adventures on old Route 66 and some of them are even true.
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True Story: I'm doing the Yginio Salazar story for the next Classic Gunfights. Yginio was only 15 when he jumped out of a burning house in Lincoln, New Mexico, straight at a row of Winchesters. He was shot in the back and shoulder and was left for dead. Kind of crazy what happened next.
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"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true."
—William Inge