Just in case you have missed Classic Velocity Laws #1 and Classic Velocity Laws #2, you can use these links to see more universal laws […]
Shaping an Icon
There are a few shapes in the last 100+ years of automobile design that can be reproduced in the form of a silhouette and yet […]
Vintage Racing Economics
Vintage Racer : Once I explain this to you, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s pretty simple to understand. It is a very lucrative pursuit. […]
On Being Cited for DWI
Many of you have been there. The point where you have adjusted, aligned, realigned, and generally mucked about with something so much that you have […]
Getting It Right Part B
Sometimes when I ride out to one of our local gathering places, my bike looks like a pretty good example. The swirls and scratches are […]
Getting It Right Part A
I have only ever entered a Concours D’Elegance once. At a show about 7 years ago, I paid to park in what i thought was […]
Moments
Perhaps it is the degradation of my memory faculties, but I have come to consider life to be a series of interludes, punctuated by powerful […]
Roadside Tales #17
Harry (name changed to protect the guilty) studied his reflection in the deep black paint of the Norton’s gas tank, as if it would tell […]
Cool Flow Air Conditioning
I have only had two types of air conditioning in vintage vehicles; not present, and not working. Well actually, that is not entirely accurate. The […]
Confronting Your Parts
Patient: Doc, it happened again. Doctor: Relax on the couch and tell me all about it. Patient: Well, first I had a few restless nights […]
Genuflecting to Gurus
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I was but a young padawan vintage gearhead, and I went to a european car […]
7 Miles of Misery
The motorcycle is the perfect vehicle for urban environments. it is small, nimble, relatively, efficient, and you can always find a place to park. On […]
Inexpensive Procrastinator Gearhead Gifts
We all have them. Neckties and sweaters and scarves that are in a box in the basement, or the back of the closet. Some are […]
Roadside Tales #750
By the time we pulled up, Franklin (name changed to protect the guilty) had already taken off his helmet, and was staring at the bike […]
On Giving Thanks
This is the day that those in the US set aside for giving thanks. It’s origins are the first autumn where the Pilgrims and the […]
Squandering the Attention Budget
Computers are wonderful things. They have enabled life as we know it today, and have made many things better than they would otherwise be. Computers […]
Repeat Offenders
Many of us have them. They come, they go, they come again. Like a person with some kind of memory disorder, or some Ad for […]
Coveralls vs Shorts
We were on line at the hot dog truck in the vast parking lot of the Swap Meet slash car show, and the two guys […]
A Riveting Tale
If you have owned and restored more than one classic vehicle, then you have probably developed some system for organizing the pieces and parts associated […]
True Adventure
This post was already decided upon. It was already partially written. An unusually epic tale befitting an epic journey whereupon a few adventurers travel on […]