Tom Edison’s Wild Ride
Sure, Edison is the light bulb and phonograph guy, but he also evidently appreciated nice cars. He used to go camping with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, after all, and they’d sometimes let President...
View ArticleCars With Fins!
Perhaps the prettiest car I ever had was this 1958 DeSoto Firesweep Sportsman, given to me by my dad when I first started driving. Here’s a drawing from an ad: He had bought me a ’58 Chevy first, but...
View ArticleThe Best-Looking Car I Never Had
One of the unintended consequences of the gasoline shortages of the early 1970s was that cars with big engines could be had cheap. For those who weren’t around in those days, gas in most localities...
View ArticleBatmobiles and Me . . .
Today’s sale of the original TV-show Batmobile reminded me of my slight brush with the history of the various versions of the car. A kid in the 1950s and ’60s could be a fan of both Superman and...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente, Popeye, my Grandfather and Me
Like a Dickens novel, life is full of surprising associations that best come into focus in hindsight. In today’s exciting blog entry, we explore the relationship between Kaiser Permanente; Popeye’s...
View ArticleA great instrument instructs the player . . .
One of my more unusual guitars is a Hallmark Barris Kustom from Bob Shade. This guitar is shaped and painted to replicate custom-hotrod-builder George Barris’ personal crest. Barris, a buddy of Shade,...
View ArticleJay Leno: Cool-and-a-half!
I’m not a television watcher, so I’ve never seen Jay Leno on the Tonight Show or any other program. But I’ve read on the Web about his car collection and that makes him the coolest person in the world....
View ArticleI left my hubcap in San Francisco . . .
For those who think a gee-whiz car is one running on a massive array of nine-volt batteries, move on. There’s nothing for you here. Personally, I got over electric cars when Mom threw away my slot-car...
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