From a Buick 8 discussion

This novel is about some old man telling a story about a ghost car. But the car is not from this world they say. The Buick resembles a vintage 1953 Buick Road master. The car has been in storage since 1975. It was left behind by a mysterious driver who diapered after he left it at a gas station. When they cover the car they notice that it's a Buick Road Master. But when they inspect the car they noticed that its staring wheel is immobile, the dashboard instruments are useless props, the engine has no moving parts and ignition wires that go nowhere, the car heals itself when scratched or dented, and all dirt and debris are repelled by it. But they think nothing of it. The narriator is Sandy Dearborn who is the Sergeant Commanding of Troop D. He is telling the story to the character named Ned. He is discussing various things that have happened with the car, and his father's fascination with it. The car will frequently give off what they dub "light quakes," or large flashes of purple light over an extended period of time, and will occasionally "give birth" to strange plants and creatures that aren't anything like what they've seen in their world. Two known people have disappeared in the car no one knows for sure if anyone else has been missing and no one can tell you for a fact. Brian Lippy they picked up for drunk driving and being under the influence of angel dust. It is later suggested in the book that perhaps the Buick was a portal, between our world and another. After hearing the story of the car Ned started to think more about his fathers death. He thinks the car had something to do with the death of his father. After all, the gas station attendant who first reported the Buick sitting in front of the station was the same man who, years later, would kill his father. Sandy tells him to stay away but he doesn't listen to him and goes anyway. He realizes that Ned is determined to destroy the Buick... and that the Buick, in fact, wants to use that impulse to take Ned into the world it connects to ours. Sandy returns to the shed to find Ned sitting in it, Ned having poured gasoline under the car and holding a pistol and a match. Just as Sandy pulls Ned out, the Buick transforms into a portal, trying to draw both Ned and Sandy inside of it. THATS ALL FOLKS!!!!!!!