When he turned sixteen, Nick inherited his grandfather’s unidentified junk car left behind the family garage. It could end his unhappy gay life if he learns how to fix it, so over the years, self-pity and enough of his father’s gin lead Nick to a plan.<br><br>With the help of a gorgeous instructor named Harry, Nick becomes an apprentice automobile mechanic. When the car finally starts, a very drunk Nick puts his plan to work.<br><br>But the car has other ideas, and Nick has to call for a tow. His plan quickly changes the moment Harry steps out of the tow truck. Will the unidentified classic car lead Nick to love?

The Mechanics of Love

From then on, I spent hours every day in that car. Nobody seemed to miss me or care. After a while, I started poking around, cleaning the seats, dusting off this and that. I looked in the glove box and found nothing but an old condom wrapper. I glanced nervously over my shoulder, but there was no back seat. Weird. There was, however, a wasp nest behind the left rear wheel, and I had to deal with that. That was the night of junior prom, and, of course, I didn’t go. I had a terrible crush on a boy named Denny who ended up taking a girl named Marie. I cried in the car for the first time that night.


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