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It's fun to pull gently at knobs on the old car's dashboard to see if they budge

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ch-000004-dashboard.jpg An old automobile carcass near the 100-year-old saloon ruinsThumbnailsI walk back to the China Ranch store, rest briefly, drink two cans of cold Coca-cola, and begin the ride up out of the canyonAn old automobile carcass near the 100-year-old saloon ruinsThumbnailsI walk back to the China Ranch store, rest briefly, drink two cans of cold Coca-cola, and begin the ride up out of the canyonAn old automobile carcass near the 100-year-old saloon ruinsThumbnailsI walk back to the China Ranch store, rest briefly, drink two cans of cold Coca-cola, and begin the ride up out of the canyonAn old automobile carcass near the 100-year-old saloon ruinsThumbnailsI walk back to the China Ranch store, rest briefly, drink two cans of cold Coca-cola, and begin the ride up out of the canyonAn old automobile carcass near the 100-year-old saloon ruinsThumbnailsI walk back to the China Ranch store, rest briefly, drink two cans of cold Coca-cola, and begin the ride up out of the canyon

The knobs barely move and don't control what they were supposed to control.

Inside the old car shell, it actually feels hotter than outside because the roof intensifies the heat beneath it.