Twice-Plus As Much
Thirty years ago, when I was young guy in his 20s, I bought the Great Pumpkin - my 1976 Trans Am - for $5,400. It seemed like a lot of money...
The Motor Gods Smiled
Some of you may have seen the Viking funeral I gave my '76 Trans-Am's rear tires - which were both very old and nearly bald. I bought a new pair to...
It Works . . . Even if it Needs Work
Old cars - those made when cars were still mostly mechanical things - would sometimes just stop working. Just as modern, electronically encrusted cars sometimes also stop working. The difference is...
Viking Funeral!
Sometimes, a picture - or a movie - is worth a thousand words. Here's a little visual vignette to show you what you could do with cars before cars got in...
One of the Small Things
Little things sometimes have a lot of significance.
One of those things happened the year after my '76 Trans-Am was built. The next year, 1977, the decals affixed to either side of...
Tires for the TA
When an 8 ounce package of butter costs almost $6, it seems extravagant to spend $400 on a pair of tires for a car that mostly just sits. But next year,...
The Analog Antidote
Today, they dropped off another EeeeeeVeeeee... so I took this for a drive, instead!
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30 Years of Stagnation
I began test driving new cars some 30 years ago, so I have driven thousands of them over the years. Many of them are now antiques - which implies I'm becoming...
Pontiac is Racist
The Washington Redskins no longer play football; instead a "football team" from "Washington" does.
That, at least, is what the ex-Redskins were called until someone came up with "Commanders" - a name...
The Wages of Sin . . .
A battleship in service is ready for service, usually. But a battleship on static display may not even float - on account of the unnoticed rust that ate through its sides...