Return of the Beetle – Mark I
I've begun to notice a fair number of old (Mark I) Beetles on the road. The original ones. Last sold here (new) in the late '70s. Not at car shows (or...
If You Don’t Ride Your Bike . . .
One of the things I learned after getting divorced has nothing to do with women. My small herd of bikes sat for a long time as my marriage unravelled. I either...
The Littlest Triple
Weird little bikes are hard to find new. A bleak homogeneity has settled in. Small bikes are safe bikes; conventionally styled, with mild engines. Made, in brief, for beginners. To be...
Dumb – As Seen in the Rearview
We all do dumb things - which we thought at the time we did them were smart things. One of the dumbest things I’ve done over the past several years was...
FrankenHarley
For about a month now, I have been trying - like Dr. Frankenstein - to breath life into something inert: The cobbled-together corpse of what was - once - a 1980 Harley Davidson...
Not Exactly Jay Leno’s Garage
I've got posters of Lamborghini Murias; I once got to drive a Pantera GTS - the 351 Cleveland howling inches behind my right ear. I've spent the past 20-plus years driving...
Roadrunner with Richmond 6 Speed Transmission
A good friend of my father's has a modified Roadrunner with a 440. For performance and improved gas mileage he has a Richmond six speed (ROD). He has had it for...
Motorcycles Can’t be Automated
What happens to motorcycles in a world of automated - not autonomous - cars?
Don't you hate that slippery shuck and jive? "Autonomy" means independent; free from external control. We are talking...
Mustang SVO, 1984-1986
Trying to keep the performance flame flickering in the late '70s wasn't easy. Big-cube, high-powered V-8s had been all but outlawed. Only a handful of smallblocks were still gimping along, their...
Chrysler New Yorker, 1955-1982
There's a reason it's known as the Empire State.
New York is outsized and audacious - not a place for the timid. So is the car named after the Big Apple. It's...