The car is also another aspect of Friend’s disguise: like his clothes and the music he claims to love, it is intended to make him seem normal and unthreatening to Connie. As Friend’s own name is written on the car, it is clear that it functions as a direct extension of Friend himself and his intentions. In this way, getting into the car will bring an end to Connie’s childhood innocence. A jalopy is an old decrepit vehicle, it is usually a car but it can also be a pick up, small truck or van.
Upgrade, maintain and care for your Laika 601 Deluxe motor vehicle. Adapt to whatever the procedurally generated world of Jalopy can throw at you. Friend continually asks Connie to come for a ride in the car it is the means by which he will take her away from her home, and, by extension, her family and her life as a teenager. About This Game Navigate miles and miles of tyre changing, fuel burning, carburettor busting, mud clattering terrain, through night and day, rain and shine. Arnold Friend arrives at Connie’s house in his car, and Connie notices that not only is it battered from a previous accident, but also that it is marked with sentences, such as “DONE BY CRAZY DRIVER” Friend’s own name and the numbers 33,19,17, which appear to reference a verse in the Bible, which reads “When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, ‘Where are you going? Where did you come from?’” This seems a possible clue regarding Friend’s possibly supernatural identity.