![]() ![]() ![]() These lights will occasionally "give birth" to strange plants and creatures that are not like anything in our world. The car will frequently give off what they dub "lightquakes", or large flashes of purple light over an extended period of time. Sandy Dearborn, now Sergeant Commanding of Troop D, is the main narrator of the book, and tells the story to Ned, discussing various things that have happened with the car and his father's fascination with it. It appears to be a Buick Roadmaster, but the steering wheel is immobile, the dashboard instruments are useless props, the engine has no moving parts, the ignition wires go nowhere, the car heals itself when damaged and it repels all dirt or debris. The car, they discover, is not a car at all. The Buick 8, which resembles a vintage 1953 Buick Roadmaster, has been in storage in a shed near the barracks since 1979, when it was left at a gas station by a mysterious driver who then disappeared. The troopers begin telling Ned about the "Buick 8". The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him. After Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit the barracks. ![]() The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in western Pennsylvania. ![]()
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