Down in Eatonville, Florida, there's a man who can clean spark plugs just by looking at them hard, and who can grease an axle faster than you can say "carburetor." Folks round those parts claim Roy Tyle might just be the best mechanic in the world. But Roy, you know, he never can find an automobile made to suit him. He figures, if a car was built right, there wouldn't be so many collisions out on the road. And so when Roy-that wonder-making man-says he's going to make an accident-proof car, there's no telling what he'll cook up behind his double-locked doors . . .

Parents Choice Gold Award, 2005

Kirkus pointer review:
"Lyons wheels out a terrific new tall-tale character in a Florida yarn based on a fragment collected by Zora Neale Hurston."

School Library Journal: "Southern storytelling at its best."

Publisher's Weekly: "Lyons recounts the tale of a mechanic in Eatonville, Fl., with brisk pacing and plenty of colloquialisms . . . . Widener's acrylics take up the playful exaggeration of the text."

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