The Entirety of What Once Was
I like carburetors, chiefly because I like mechanical things - which I like because you can see their workings and adjust/fix them, by hand. As opposed to electronic things - more...
A Glance in the Rearview . . .
Here's a story for those under 40 - of what it was like to be seventeen 40 years ago.
We got our licenses at sixteen. Not a restricted license. A license just...
What You Can’t Buy for $2,700 Anymore
I have a model of a '71 Dodge Demon 340 Wedge - which is all I can afford these day. A real '71 Demon 340 - today - costs more than...
A Look Back for a Company With no Future
For the second year in a row, GM is selling nostalgia about the cars it used to make and hoping that will translate into sales of the cars it makes now.
Last...
What Happened to Pop-Ups?
Before there were pop-up ads, there were pop-up headlights. When they weren't on, you couldn't see them - because when they were off, they retracted or rolled over so that all...
Re-Fixing It . . .
I sometimes wish I'd gotten the V6 engine that was optional when my 2002 Nissan Frontier pick-up was built, because then I could use my truck to pull a small (4,000)...
Memories Made
Over the course of nearly 30 years test-driving new cars, I have driven thousands of cars. Many of them - especially lately - forgotten as soon as I get done with...
Cars You Used to See a Lot . . .
A very sound rule of thumb way to determine the goodness of a given make/model of car is to look around for them. If you see a lot of them around...
Elevators and EeeeeVeeeeeees
EeeeeeVeeees - especially Teslas - are very quick. But the experience is detached and anodyne. It quickly gets old. Or rather, nothing particularly exciting.
The best parallel example I can summon is...
They Don’t Just Look the Same . . .
It's often said - correctly - that modern cars (mostly crossovers now) all look pretty much the same. But it goes deeper than that.
Modern cars are mostly the same. Literally.
Beneath their...