Before Christine, Arnie had been a loser. But after he found her for sale online from an old man who seemed eager to be rid of the rusted chassis and fixed her up, something changed inside of him. He had a confidence, a swagger, as he walked the halls at school and cruised that relic on the roads around town. A few people, even his only friend Dennis, teased him for loving that "Boomer-mobile" as much as he did, but Arnie was inseparable from the old car with her tailfins and chrome. The most modern amenity of Christine was her AM-only radio that could seemingly only tune into an oldies station that played '50s and '60s rock and roll at all hours.
His face cast in the eerie green glow of Christine's running lamps, the miles ticking over, Arnie