n 1912 a newspaper reported that the Corniche roads above Nice and Monte Carlo were being exploited by ‘motor-bandits’, horseless-carriage highwaymen who used the new technology of the automobile to disrupt the accepted models of bankjobs and burglary. From the beginning, cars created exciting opportunities for outlaws. No-one ever caught this outlaw spirit better than Jack Kerouac, whose 1949 Hudson Commodore enabled his 1957 book , an odyssey that defined the expectations of The Beat Generation. Bohemians from Brooklyn, Kerouac
