You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
Earle Whitcher of Chester, New Hampshire, was a Chevy guy—but he didn’t have anything fun to take to car shows. “Cadillacs always appealed to me, but I could never afford one. Then, in 2004, my friend Bob Quimby got me into going to cruise nights. When he turned up in his El Camino and I saw that he was having fun, and I wasn’t, I was jealous!” And so, following Erica Jong’s philosophy that jealousy is all the fun you think they had, Earle set out to find himself a car.
After years of Bowtie fealty, he thought maybe the time was right to step up into a Cadillac. “I’d always wanted a hearse,” Earle confesses. “But I had to run it past my wife. In 42 years of marriage, she’s said ‘no’ just three times. That was one of them, and by then I’d learned to respect the ‘no.’”
He quickly pivoted to
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