Vehicles

There are plenty enough bikes and scooters and automobiles in the pages of “One Summer in the Sun.” It would be dreary to list them all, largely out of context, so I shall simply show a few of them here. This is all in 1968, of course.

Preston Summerlin’s white Caddy

Lawyer Preston Summerlin, father of James and Angelica—known to their friends as Jam and Jelly—is quite fond of his Sixty-two Cadillac de Ville convertible. The picture here is pretty much identical to it. Some of our characters do get to borrow it and cruise town one summer Sunday.

the Mini Moke

Where they meet Gordon ‘Grubby’ Rhein, parked near the Naples pier in his Mini Moke. There was a Moke in Naples at the time the story is set, though it did not belong to any surfer-boy such as Grubby. But it seemed appropriate for him!

 

the mighty Solex moped

Our final picture is of a Solex moped. There was one of these in the real Naples at the time, too, belonging to the individual who somewhat inspired the character Russel I blogged about a little while ago. In my narrative, it has been passed along to his younger sister, who tries to keep up with Jelly Summerlin on her shiny new red Vespa scooter.