And clearly, someone to hold your beer. Ah, America the Beautiful, Land of Bounteous and Unbridled Creativity and Wonder. Or something like that. Whenever I have occasion to head up […]
(first posted 12/18/2017) Back when we lived in Northern California, attending the Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Laguna Seca was on our list of things to do almost every […]
Sometimes I will be stopped in my tracks while in the junkyard. At times it’s due to a Maserati, other times a Lancia, and ever so slightly more often anything […]
Lord, won’t you buy me an Oldsmobile sang no one ever, certainly not Janis, and not any of the legions of artists since. Yet here we were in the times […]
My local corner shopping center has a mixture of shops; anchored by a semi-bougie grocery store there’s a distillery, a few eateries, an actual butcher, a baker, a pharmacy, a […]
Virtually every red-blooded male American retiree or retiree-to-be either vocally or secretly has a deep-held desire for a genuinely small pickup truck to either potter around town with, use to […]
Behold the humble Corolla. Respected the world over, doing its job day in and day out, year after year, decade after decade. Demanding little, yet giving all of itself. This […]
While the Ford Torino benefitted mightily (at least to my then pre-pubescent peepers) from its association with Bay City’s finest undercover officers, the sad-sack Saturn Ion Quad Coupe does not. […]
Once upon a time there were vinyl tops. And some of them fit nicely, were snug to the metal below, and served to accentuate the shape and form they were […]
It was 7:30a.m. but already pushing 90 degrees; as I stumbled across the scorching parking lot to get some hot bagels and even hotter coffee I thought it was a […]
This first-year 1956 Lincoln Premiere was bucking hard to be saved, but not by me, not today. It has maybe a couple of weeks left before it shuffles off this […]
I was out test-driving the Jeep after last week’s repair when I caught this out of the corner of my eye parked in a side street, thankfully far enough away […]
A year ago. That’s when I started noticing that our 2015 Jeep Wrangler (JK generation) was starting to drip oil at only 55,000 or so miles. While in 2015 the […]