![]() ![]() ![]() 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 and ignition wires that go nowhere, the car heals itself when scratched or dented, and all dirt and debris are repelled by it. The car, they discover, is not a car at all. The car is later held by the Troop D police of rural Pennsylvania in storage shed B. ![]() The Buick 8 resembles a vintage 1953 Buick Roadmaster, and was left at a gas station by a mysterious man dressed in black, who disappeared soon after leaving the car to be refueled. And while the Buick 8 is not a traditional ghost, it is indeed not of their world. It is in some sense a ghost story in the way that the novel is about a group of people telling an old but unsettling tale. The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him, and soon begin telling him about the "Buick 8" of the title. After Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit Troop D. The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a state police barracks in Western Pennsylvania. ![]()
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