In The Aims of Education, Harvard professor Alfred North Whitehead said that “a merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth.” Less cynically, though perhaps no less accurately, he […]
General Motors products from the early 1950s are not known for their precise panel gaps and hood fitment, and in the Buick world in particular, the 1953 model is particularly […]
The 1967 Mercury Cougar is a car that I often inexplicably forget that I’m in love with. I intermittently find myself reexamining its clean, vaguely European, almost un-Ford-like lines, and […]
If daydreaming were currency, I’d be rich. In my vernacular, it’s “spacing out,” and my lovely bride is forced almost daily to reel me in with a quick utterance: “Snap […]
(first posted 1/20/2015, updated with more pictures) Most of the time, I love the fact that I’m a car guy in Michigan. Sure, our roads are terrible and our […]
In yesterday’s post about my ’63 Thunderbird, commenter MarkKyle64 brought up an interesting QOTD – what is the easiest old car to work on? I think I can give my […]
It’s been over two years since I bought my 1963 Thunderbird, and although an old car owner’s work is never done, I’ve finally reached the point in my ownership tenure […]
If someone with no prior knowledge of General Motors were dropped into their Warren Tech Center somewhere between 1960 and 1964, in the manner of Hertz dropping a guy into […]
(first posted 1/5/2015) This ongoing series (should I decide to continue it) will focus on my “Great 28,” a list of my favorite cars. To be on the list, I […]
If you’ve ever driven a carbureted car from the 1950s through the 1970s, chances are pretty good that it had a Carter AFB under the hood. Introduced in 1957 and […]
This handsome rig resides at the R.E. Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, which is a wonderful small museum to visit if you’re interested in Oldsmobile or REO history. In 1967, […]
As a reader or listener, when I see that an author or musician labels a work “Part 1,” I expect a Part 2. James Brown was famous, among other things, […]
(first posted 12/8/2014) For years, the simple dog dish hubcap signified the domain of the cheapskate, the hack, the socially awkward, and the old maid. It was a placeholder for […]
A hangover from the Saturnalian revelry of the 1959 models, the facelifted 1960 full-size General Motors line seems to inhabit a peculiar place. More subdued than their immediate counterparts, but […]