Ghetto documentation & car talk

[J.David Moriaty]

The picture of the car was sent to me post mortem as sort of a cruelty 
joke while I was in Munich working at the Doktor Stiebel 
Heisswassergerat Werke trying to make enough money to escape Germany 
without actually being deported. The reverse of the picture reads:

"EAT YOUR LIVER!!
Moriaty,
Your CLASSIC automobile, 1950 vintage, has been DESECRETATED BEYOND 
BELIEF by surely enough yours truly G.K. SHELTON, just like I 
threatened to do months ago. And to add incest to injury, I have to 
date won THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS in prize money, many times the face value 
of the vehicle.
	You must commend me on the paint job, which undoubtedly makes it the 
gaudiest car at the Austin Speed-O-Rama, if not exactly the 
fastest...(as of this writing, only four or five of the original eight 
cylinders function properly, and as a result I have only two fourth 
place finishes to my record)
—Shelton"

The other side of the car proclaims it to be "The Mary Jane Special 69" 
leaving us to imagine whether the lady or the herb.

Direct quotes from actual letters are contained in quotes. Comments to 
clarify or expand on context are contained in brackets. Other text not 
in brackets or quotes are my contemporary introductions or memories.

Dave