High Beams On Bumpy Roads: Stories From A Car Guy's Life

Ken Webb draws on two diverse careers--newspaper journalism and retail car sales--as he takes you on a hilarious, sometimes bumpy, ride down his personal highway. His love affair with wheeled vehicles includes tales of a 1949 pedal car delivered by a one armed man, memories of a Ku Klux Klan parade, and a dilemma created when his old Dodge landed against a pig pen. This inspired author displays a wicked sense of humor in stories about dates in cars, speeding tickets, and his grandfather's violation while driving a Model T Ford in 1914. The pace quickens when Webb recounts challenging a Mercedes-Benz in his new BMW on a coastal highway and hits the brakes twenty fun tales later in front of a dismembered Ford in the Carolina mountains. While sold "AS IS," as car the guys say, it's a safe bet this book will create laughs as it rekindles the reader's own automotive memories. After all, doesn't everyone have a car story?

Ken Webb has been around storytellers all his life, having grown up a preacher's son in South Carolina and having listened to a grandfather whose tales of early and mid-20th Century Southern life stick with him to this day. The importance of stories and listening continued as he earned a degree in journalism, became an award-winning reporter and editor for weekly newspapers, and then a staff writer for The State newspaper in Columbia, SC. In a career shift, Webb worked in automotive sales, management, and consulting, but continues to write and collect stories. He drew on both careers for High Beams on Bumpy Roads as he did in crafting his first novel, Mr. Carter's Sword, a story of honor and retribution, rooted in the Vietnam War, but set in the present day American South. Both books are available as ebooks or in print at amazon.com/Books. Visit kenwebbauthor.com to contact the author or share comments about his work.