Earl “Madman” Muntz was the 50s equivalent of a modern Silicon Valley tech giant, making and squandering several fortunes in his lifetime. If you’ve ever seen, or listened to a commercial where the pitchman makes claims as to the dubious sanity of the prices of the products being sold, Earl Muntz is the person to …
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The Back Of The Book.
What drew my attention was the Jag SS100 for 2000.00 in 1964. About 17K today. If only. There’s some other interesting entries on this, the first page of Road&Track’s ad space, “Market Place”. In the glacially slow days of 1964, my birth year, this was it. If you wanted an interesting vehicle, this was the …
The Classifieds.
Every gearhead passes time with a trip to the marketplaces of the internet. Currently, my favorites are Hemmings and Bring A Trailer. Both cover the broad middle ground of the market, with the occasional Interesting Piece materializing from some garage, shed, barn or storage area. My job also offers access to garages, with some lovely …
01/01/2020
It was going to be an exhaustive, scholarly breakdown of each issue, a recitation of the salient points and comparisons and contrasts from then to now. But then I got bogged down in my usual morass of overthinking, perfectionism and doubt, so no post, just tweaking to a draft that was never good enough- too …
Motor Trend, August 1956.
The above picture is of a “Monroney Sticker”, a bit of information required by federal law to be posted on all new vehicles that will be sold in the United States. This particular sticker is from my car, included when I purchased it from its original owner. I may have one or two more lurking …
So about that “No car reviews” thing…
As well as it being a modern car, even, and a CUV, or whatever they’re called now, even worse, I felt compelled to jot a few words regarding the Nissan Rogue that I rented to ferry my (now) geriatric folks to the memorial for my late father-in-law, Bill, whose middle name was interestingly, Delahaye. “Okay, …
The Gearhead Ecosystem.
It’s Sunday, I’m inside. Traffic is intolerable when I’m not working, so if I don’t get out for an early drive, I’m not going. I’ll do chores, read, nap, play GT Sport- anything but drive. Heck, I’ll even watch TV, or at least television how it’s configured nowadays, with YouTube, Amazon and Netflix standing in …
Ugh.
Not this week. Too much going on. Have some Pics. See you soon.
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, …
The Department Of Past Issues 