Auto-De-Fe    by Paul Hawkins
Price: Free! 8220 words. Published on September 2, 2011. .
Two young friends are united by a crappy old car, dead-end summer jobs, and the endless desire to escape from tedium into the big wide world. One breaks free and gets the girl; the other gets an empty garage and a valuable lesson. (Instructions on how to repair your own tail-finned Cadillac are not included, but if you can manage to do this, you have every right to live large).