7. Inside: A Suspicious Notebook
On the cracked leather seat lay a small, weathered notebook. The cover was plain, but worn fingerprints marred its edges, a sign that it had been handled many times. Tentatively, Mr. Langston opened it. Inside were sketches—beautifully detailed designs of cars, unlike anything seen in mainstream models. There were no names, only numbers, and formulas. It appeared to be an engineer’s notebook, holding blueprints and ideas that seemed far ahead of its time.
8. The Mystery of the Engineer
The notebook left the townsfolk intrigued. Whose work was this? Mr. Langston scanned the pages, noting advanced mechanisms described with precision. Was this the work of a forgotten genius? He recognized that some designs pointed toward energy efficiency, a rarity in the 1970s. With a soft chuckle, he shared that even in today’s world, few cars were built with such vision. The car, it seemed, belonged to someone ahead of their era.