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The Department Of Past Issues
Welcome to The Department Of Past Issues. I started this because it combines both my love for writing and my affinity for automotive literature, primarily past issues of “Buff Books,” the magazines that were so very popular in the twentieth century, the means by which car news and culture was transmitted. Not instantaneously, like today,… Read more
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Alfetta Berlina, a memory.
Her name was Karen, before it became an epithet. She lived in a corner of California called Burney, a spot between Redding and Nevada on 299. She worked at a radio station, spinning country greats for the folks who lived in the burg, along with a guy whose name I forget who had the morning… Read more
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The Question.
The kid was in the office, his lube tech duties done for the day. “So what’s your next car?” The kid asked. Kiddo had just traded a ratbucket Jetta for a ’21 Camry XSE. A Camry that’s fast, and handles. Fast Camrys that went around corners weren’t a thing a decade ago, so I was… Read more
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