Author: Vic Socotra

A Socotra Family Album

So, we rolled back from the Rambler ramble down to Petersburg, just south of Richmond. It was a breathtaking event, if you have not seen an acre or two of American Motors projects. The memories of the design and industrial deployment of those now-old rides actually brought a tear with the recollection of Mom emerging […]

Return From a Rambler Rally

We owned, leased or or rambled across America in these machines! This show was oriented to the later innovations as George Romney’s vision for an affordable family car was implemented by designers Ed Anderson and Dick Teague- and Bill Reddig, our Dad. Below left is brother Mike and I recreating an original picture from fifty-odd […]

Rambler Show, Day 2

Day 1 was such a blast down in Petersburg that we tried to extend our reservation for another night. Too no avail, so we will head back over to the National Tractor and Truck Museum for a pass through the perking lot to see what the new day has brought forth. More on that tomorrow! […]

Rambler Rambling

The American Motors Owners Association is holding its annual get together this year in Petersburg, just south of Richmond. They celebrate the cars Dad used to help design in the wild tail-fin era of the 1950s. This is the sort of designs he contributed: Anyway, this is a year of transitions. Mom, Dad and Sister […]

12 June 24 Weather Report

Morning, Gentle Readers! The weekly report is not “weakly” presented! There is more Law Fare news bursting out all over! With the Trump verdict reverberations signifying the mixed results on that front, the news shifted to the matter of the Hunter Biden affair up in Delaware. It is hard to follow the intricacies of this […]

Meanwhile, Across the River…

There were celebrations in progress yesterday on both banks of the Potomac Rivers broad and inexorable flow. It divides things in terms of mood. On the West bank, just up the Hill from the gray-brown-sometimes blue waters there was joy and relief. The joy sprang from the successful celebration of another orbit around the sun […]

Arrias: More Lessons Learned

We are 120 weeks into the war in Ukraine, a peace conference begins in a week in Switzerland (at which only one side is represented), and the war continues to evolve. But there are some lessons we can draw from the war, and perhaps some hints of what the future may hold. None of these […]

The Anti-Freeze Age

10 June 1951 (Image from the 2006 movie “The Meltdown,” the second of the “Ice Ages” series. The plots were based on the breakdown of the ice dam that kept Lake Agassiz bonded inside the great glaciers of the Laurentide, in the North American continent. The dam broke 15,000 years ago and a giant flood […]

World Ocean Carnival

Old Salts (Russian Warships Resurface in Chittagong After 50-Years). The Salts were energized, since there is a morning topic some of us actually understand. DeMille got them quiet at the Production Meeting of thew Writer’s Section. “Three Russian warships are making their way to the Chittagong port in Bangladesh. It is one of several naval […]

WER’s Sketchbook of How Design Happens, 1956

Author’s Note: This is a short edition that doesn’t meet Daily standards but doesn’t represent art as much as the technology involved in attempting to awaken and old computer by: Finding a suitable charging cord on Amazon, which was delivered almost before I ordered it. Then charging the old box, and exploring how many 32-character […]