My pal in Monterey filled me with envy the last few days. Car Week on the peninsula is starting, and there were at least three events already with the auctions starting today. The wildest one was: (“Big Daddy’s Caddie” ! … Big Daddy being Josif Broz Tito…. it reportedly was a gift, a token of […]

We get letters. I intend, when we put the book together out of these wandering stories, to intersperse the chapters with the accounts of other Great American Car people. Above is one of my passions- it is the very First Nash Healy that just went at auction for a half million dollars. My pals have […]

OK, I am stunned. I don’t know if you are- I mean, the guy was a force of nature, manic almost, and if he wasn’t exactly your cup of tea, he was definitely a distinct and vibrant brew. I was going to present some recollections of car people this morning, but I am rocked back […]

(Flyer for the 2009 Concours D’LeMons. I include it mostly because we had several Gremlins and my Brother owned a Pacer, which lasted until he cut the rear roof off to convert into a make-shift pick-up truck which he thought he needed at the time. Photo Concours D’LeMons). This has been an extended love-song to […]

(Shelby A/C 427 Cobra. For me, the coolest muscle car affordable- sort of – to the common man of all time. Photo Socotra at Katie’s Cars & Coffee at Great Falls, VA). It is August, and the cars are out all over the country. There are shows all over and as I typed the date […]

(Cherry Sunbeam Tiger. These little guys ROARED!) Sorry- this is late, going to get later, and I am so far behind that I think I will defer writing about it until tomorrow. Jake picked me up in the Porsche a pretty cool ride to take to get to any car event, much less this one. […]

It is Dad’s birthday. He would have been 92 this year, had his fine mind and artistic hand not been dragged down by the shackles of dementia. He was the real Car Guy- he designed them and drove them and lavished us with his passion for them. It has been a wild ride, these last […]

It is unseasonably crisp again this morning. The humidity slid back a bit yesterday, but the skies have cleared and it is cool for an August. There was no reason not to take the Bluesmobile to the dealer for the 90K Platinum servicing. I wondered what the $700 surprise was going to be this month, […]

It was 2002. I was taking my son back to school at Ann Arbor, and I was going to stash the hot rod up in the Little Village By the Bay. I did not want to have the new paint on the fenders out in the Virginia weather, and Raven had a heated garage spot […]

(1969 Pontiac GTO Judge, named for the comic mantra on the Rowen & Martin Laugh-In television variety show. Photo Pontiac Motor Division. RIP). OK- too strange out there, between the Ebola outbreak and politics as usual. There are convoys of armored limousines all over town and anyone with a brain is staying away from the […]