Christine (Car)

Christine is a dilapidated 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury, property of Roland D. LeBay. Arnie Cunningham buys it for $250.

Unable to pay the full amount, he settles on a $25 deposit and agrees to return the next day with the balance.

Arnie and Dennis return the following day, and LeBay invites Arnie into his house to sign the paperwork.

While waiting for Arnie, Dennis decides to sit inside Christine, and as he does, he has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they were in 1957 when the car was new, foreshadowing her true nature.

Christine is restored by Arnie at Darnell's, a local do-it-yourself auto repair facility.

The car is repaired haphazardly, and not all of the repairs seem to be done by Arnie, who becomes withdrawn, yet more confident and self-assured and whose appearance improves in tandem with Christine's.

George LeBay relates to Dennis that Roland's young daughter choked to death on a hamburger in the back of the car, and then Roland's wife, traumatized by this death, apparently committed suicide in the car by carbon monoxide poisoning.

When Arnie is almost finished restoring Christine, Leigh Cabot transfers to his school.

It is a surprise to everyone when she decides to go out with Arnie.

While on a date with Arnie, Leigh almost chokes to death on a hamburger.

Leigh is certain that Christine was behind it, and when Arnie attempts to save her by hitting her on the back she notices that the dashboard lights on Christine seem to have turned into glaring green eyes.

Leigh is saved from death by a hitchhiker, who pulls her from the car and administers the Heimlich Maneuver.

Despite Arnie's protestations, Leigh continues to feel as though she is competing with Christine for Arnie's affection.

Arnie brings Christine home from Darnell's, but his mother, who hates the car, tells him that he cannot park it at the house.

Arnie's father, Michael, takes a drive with his son and treats him to a 30-day parking pass at the local airport, thinking Arnie will only use his car when absolutely necessary.

Soon after Arnie begins parking at the airport, Buddy Repperton, a vicious bully who Arnie and Dennis got expelled earlier in the story, visits Christine with his gang of thugs and severely vandalizes the car.

Seeing Christine destroyed completely infuriates Arnie, resulting in the severance of his relationship with Leigh.

One by one, members of Buddy's gang are killed by a rebuilt Christine. Others who were hostile to Arnie or Christine also die.

The police investigate the murders and become suspicious of Arnie.

However, the car apparently acts on its own when he's out of town.

Although the police find paint chips at the crime scenes that match Christine's color, they find no damage, bloodstains, or other evidence on the car, since Christine supernaturally repairs herself after each attack.

Arnie's father is found dead in Christine, apparently from exhaust fumes.

Arnie and his mother die in an auto accident: witnesses to the accident saw three people in the car before the crash, but only two bodies were found.

In the meantime, Christine is destroyed by Dennis and Leigh in Darnell's using a huge, pink-colored septic tanker truck, and the remains were fed into the crusher in the back of the garage by two police officers, one receiving a bad cut that needed stitches, and saying "it bit him".

Four years later, in Los Angeles, Sandy Galton (one of Buddy's gang) dies a mysterious death when a car burst through the wall of the theater where he was working, instantly killing him.

It's implied that Christine repaired herself and pursued him, and now may be working her way east, targeting Leigh and LeBay's brother and sister, saving Dennis for last.

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