Johnny Guts

July, 1975

Johnny GutsMafalda, owner of the R & M Service Station, was showing Johnny Guts how to find the leak in a radiator when the police car pulled up. The green-and-white Ford did not stop at the pumps but parked with its motor running at the edge of Mafalda's corner property.One of the cops was summoning Curtis Jefferson with a wagging pink finger. Jefferson, pumping gas into Fifty Cents Frank's 1975 Eldorado, jammed the nozzle into hole and walked loose-limbed toward the prowl car. "They new,&...