The first riders I ever saw on motorbikes wore no headgear, but I secretly wanted a helmet. Helmets were pretty rare on the street at […]
The Substitute
Every single vintage car and motorcycle I’ve ever owned has had something which attracted me to it. It might have been styling or engineering or […]
The Porsche Parts Palace
Porsche North America decided that it needed to add a distribution center in the northeast to complement Atlanta GA, and Ontario CA. Citing good access […]
Carlisle is for Crazies
The Carlisle Import and Kit Replicar Show is for certified automotive crazies, and you can count me among them. If you have stuffed a big […]
The Oil Pool
Dave squatted to look at the small pool of oil left by the old car he had just backed out of the garage. It was […]
The Illusion of Speed
Racing school instructors all roll out the old adage that fast is slow. Famous racing drivers talk about being in the zone where speed turns […]
Ten Dollar Disablers
How many items on your vintage car or bike cost less than $10, but could leave you stranded someplace? It turns out that there are […]
A Visit to the Penske Racing Museum
Roger Penske is a legendary name in racing in the US and around the world. He has enjoyed successes in sports cars, Can Am, IRL, […]
Record Wreckers
They say that records are made to be broken. Well someone (Todd Trumbore) decided that the record for the most BMW motorcycles on a ride […]
Hershey Pilgrimage 2010
Hershey Pa may be the epicenter of the US candy industry, and the home of all things chocolate, but it is also arguably at the […]
Motorsports Roundup April 2010
Vettel about to clean right ear..Well, the start to the collective seasons has not been dull. However, in Formula 1, that has been mostly due […]
A Gathering of Nortons 2010
About 7 years ago, I owned a Norton and became aware of an annual meeting of Nortons not too far away in Washington Crossing, PA. The […]
Back In A Minute…
The thing about being connected to a web of vintage car and bike guys is that on any given day you can get a call […]
The Return of RoadRacing
When I ascend to the throne of all things motorsport, roadracing will return in force. It is the beginnings and the roots of all racing, […]
Small is Big
The annual pilgrimage to either the Philadelphia or New York auto show is always revealing in one way or another. This year we had to […]
Who Framed Norton?
Norton is in stiff competition with Indian for the brand that has died and been resuscitated most often. While they are both back among the […]
The $800 CV Boot
The project started innocently enough. One of the CV boots on the Porsche 911T was torn and had sent grease all over the heat exchanger […]
BMW 700, Heart of a Bike, Body of a Car
For a long time at the turn of the 20th century, Cars and carriages shared a great deal. Indeed, the first cars were truly horseless […]
Discovering Mars
On a recent visit to the Solvang Motorcycle Museum, the machine that was the most impressive, in a field of very impressive motorcycles, was a […]
Gear is Good
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that gear, for lack of a better word, is good. Gear is right, gear works. And gear, you mark […]