These aren’t dream cars. These are the ones that actually show up to work when it’s ten below, the salt is eating everything, and the alley looks like a frozen crime scene. Stuff I see in the fleet, on 35th, and parked crooked outside the Music Box. Not perfect. Just dependable in the way a slightly noisy lifter is dependable. You hear it. You note it. You keep driving. But what do I know.