It began with tales of high school car craziness in the early 1960s in Denison. Then Roger Jetter’s stories about car escapades shifted to Lincoln and Omaha when he moved to Nebraska.
This year Jetter’s brother, Dan, collaborated on Jetter’s seventh book and sixth in a series of compilations about cars, The Denison Bulletin & Review reported. “Broke Down a Million Miles from Home. Now What?” was released in late November.
The 214-page book details the Jetter brothers’ travels across the United States in their antique cars. They tell anecdotes about their trips and how they fixed their old cars on the side of the road. The book also highlights four decades of “having fun with old cars” by the brothers.
The Jetter brothers are both Denison High School graduates.
Roger, who now lives in Aurora, Colorado, began the series of car-related books with the release of “Bangin’ Gears and Bustin’ Heads” in July 2004. The book was released shortly after he began writing a monthly column for Goodguy’s Gazette Magazine. The column was published for more than 10 years.
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Then came “Fast Cars, 4-speeds and Fistfights,” a compilation of 23 tales of high-speed chaos, drag racing and other adventures in Lincoln and Omaha, released in May 2006.
Others in the series of books about cars are “Recollections, Regrets and Random Acts” in which 11 “famous” and well known men in the hot rod hobby tell of past transgressions (released March 2008); “Accidents & Incidents (with assorted confessions),” stories from Roger’s friends about car wrecks, cop chases, illegal drags and general car craziness (released September 2009); and “Faded Thunder,” a compilation of stories about drag racing on Denver streets, cruising the famous Scotchman drive-in and 16th Street (released January 2012).
“Arsenal Code R.E.D.” (released in 2015) is Roger’s only non-car-related book and only fiction. It is set in Denver where two 15 year-olds break into the old Stapleton International Airport control tower and are accused of causing an airliner crash into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which is home to millions of gallons of sarin nerve gas.
In October 2014, Roger began writing a bi-monthly column for another nationally distributed magazine and began writing a photographing feature articles for two internet magazines, “Street Muscle” and “Rod Authority.”
The books are available on Amazon and at other booksellers and are available in Kindle editions.