CRUSTY, BUT Lovely...
“Man, I was what you call… ragged. I mean, way beyond torn up. I wasn’t going to be no man’s friend today.” Thus opens the 1982 cult film The Loveless, Kathryn Bigelow’s sexualised fantasy portrayal of 1950s America. The voice belongs to Vance, the leader of a gang of drifting bikers travelling through Florida on their way to the Daytona 200. If only it could talk, this 1950 Ford Custom Club Coupe would probably say something similar.
It belongs to Delwyn Mallett, and its raggedness is playing on his mind somewhat. It looks great and he knows it, but at the same time he thinks it might be deteriorating too much and too fast, and he’s got a guilty conscience.
What to do? Before we get to that, let’s run over the 30 years it’s spent with Delwyn.
“It seems
