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...
Spandex Harleys
There's a classic episode of the TV cartoon series South Park lampooning Harley riders. Not bikers, the young guys who used to ride Harleys. The new demographic - which consists of...
MOCs and Conceptual Thinking
When someone does something wrong, punish everyone who hasn’t done it yet.
This is the new American legal doctrine - which seems to be based on the very old doctrine expressed by...
Things Unseen…
The hand of Uncle - which aways wields a gun - distorts our lives in so many ways it's impossible to catalog them all. There are the things we're forced to have...
The Emergency Bike
I've written before about the soundness of owning - of getting if you don't already own - a motorcycle in order to remain mobile in the months and possibly years ahead....
Chevy Laguna, 1973-1976
The mid 1970s were a weird and dangerous time for the American car industry. It had to turn on a dime - literally - and figure out how to "compete" with...
AMC Ambassador, 1965-1974
American Motors Corporation may have descended from Hudson and Nash—brands whose hallmarks were modesty and efficiency—but by the mid 1960s, AMC began producing battlewagons of truly Bismarckian proportions.
One of the most...
Bring Back T-Tops!
Some things - bell bottom corduroys, for instance - will never make a comeback. Well, hopefully. But I'd really like to see a new car with T-tops again.
Remember T-tops?
The '68 Corvette...
Chrysler 300 convertible, 1969-1970
The largest, most powerful battleship ever made was the WWII-era Japanese Yamato and her sister ship, Musashi. They came late to the war and didn't survive it - in part because...
The Forgotten Trans-Am …
I own a "forgotten year" second generation (1970-1981) Trans Am. A '76 TA, in Carousel Red with Honeycomb rims.
The early Second Gen cars - 1970-73 especially - get most of the...