Soon afterward, Clarence 'Buddy' Repperton, a bully who blames Arnie for his expulsion from school, learns where Christine is being kept and vandalizes the car with help from his gang. Arnie's parents force him to keep Christine in an airport parking lot. When Arnie is almost finished restoring Christine, he begins dating an attractive student named Leigh. Dennis also sees that Arnie has become close to Darnell, even acting as a courier in Darnell's smuggling operations. George reveals that LeBay's young daughter choked to death on a hamburger in the back seat of the car and that LeBay's wife subsequently committed suicide in its front seat by carbon monoxide poisoning.ĭennis observes that Arnie is taking on many of LeBay's personality traits and has begun dressing like a 1950s greaser. When LeBay dies, Dennis meets his younger brother, George, who reveals LeBay's history of anger and violent behavior. As Arnie restores the car, he stops wearing his glasses and his blemishes disappear, but he also becomes withdrawn, humorless, and cynical. Arnie brings Christine to a do-it-yourself garage run by Will Darnell, who is suspected of using the garage as a front for illicit operations.

Frightened, Dennis decides he dislikes Christine.

While Arnie finishes the paperwork, Dennis sits inside Christine and has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they existed when the car was new, 20 years earlier. Despite Dennis's reservations, Arnie buys Christine, as LeBay named the vehicle, for $250. LeBay, an elderly gentleman with a back supporter and a grouchy manner. In 1978, bespectacled, acne-ridden, nerdy teen Arnold and his pal Dennis notice a dilapidated 1958 Plymouth Fury being sold by Roland D. In April 2013, PS Publishing released Christine in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released eight months later in December of the same year. It tells the story of a car (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) apparently possessed by malevolent supernatural forces. Christine is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1983.

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