John's beater from Out Of Bounds. Joe Flanigan posed mostly nude?

[icarus]

WG and I have come to a truce on John's car in Out Of Bounds.

I thought I found John's car from Out Of Bounds.

The 1978 Chevy Caprice, which he bought in 1989, just after he graduated high school:


wildernessguru says, "No way does John drive that. No guy would drive that land yacht."

"Okay," I asked him, "So what does he drive?"

He suggested a Dodge Dart. I told him that John's car has to have a back seat, and the Dart's back seat is way too small. I pointed out that John has had this car forever. It spends most of the story in various states of disrepair. (Mostly the heat's broken. In Canada.) He said, "Whatever, no way would John drive that."

Sigh. It's not like John can afford a muscle car or anything sporty. I kept hunting.

After an evening spent cruising cars in the Lemon-ade Guide, I showed wildernessguru the following. WG's cool with the 1980 Chevy Caprice Classic although John's obviously wouldn't be black (his is burgundy) or in mint condition like this one:


"More of a beater," he said, but he agreed with this choice.

I said, "You mean like this?"


"Yeah," he said.

We'll not tell him that's another photo of the original car, or that the only difference between the first and second car was the model year. *snickers*

Did you know about Joe Flanigan posing mostly nude for About Face? This is the first I'd heard of the project.

He looks both vulnerable, uncomfortable, and intense. Off-balance. It's a very interesting photo for more reasons than the obvious.

Comments

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

Well, he still doesnt' make shit...it's his cross to bear.

There are ways around the minimum wage thing...tho for the life of me I can't remember what the ways are. Something about the number of employees and ages, but I'm clueless as to what. I myself am the only member of my family to actually make more than minimum wage on my first job (teaching other drones how to ring up Kentucky Fried Chicken!) but only by 10 cents. It's a small (oh, so small) thing to be superior in but it is all I have.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I made less than minimum wage for babysitting, but my first job was minimum wage, definitely. John makes more than minimum wage for the deliveries, for sure. He's always gone for jobs that pay him the maximum for the minimum amount of time (UPS is union work). But anyway, gas was cheap in 1999.