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Time to park "Miss Agnes" in the driveway.



Fans of the John D. MacDonald literary character Travis McGee have wondered for decades what a real Miss Agnes -- McGee’s Rolls-Royce pickup truck -- might look like. But for all those concepts, drawings and imaginary exercises that never got made, there is at least one that made it into reality.
If you are a Travis McGee fan you know this isn’t really Miss Agnes. Its the wrong color. Miss Agnes, who appears in each of the 21 McGee novels is a 1936 electric blue Rolls Royce pickup truck. Here’s how she is described by Travis in Bright Orange for the Shroud.
"Because of the boat errands, I had Miss Agnes parked nearby, my electric blue Rolls pickup truck, an amateur conversion accomplished by some desperate idiot during her checkered past. She is not yet old enough to vote. But almost. She started with a touch, and I went along the beach to where…"