Are you invisible, is your vintage vehicle invisible ? Inquiring minds and so forth…. As a child, many of us would often imagine that we […]
The Helmet Club
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Theory of Oil Retention
Those of us that own vintage iron are very familiar with the challenge of keeping all of the oil in the compartments that it was […]
A Spoke Too Soon
A Guest Post by Roy Chaleff I’ll never forget the expression on the face of the woman in the car in the adjacent lane of […]
Classic Velocity Laws
1. If you have N rusty bolts to remove, N-1 of them will come off after penetrant, heat, and normal efforts. The remaining one will […]
The WRC and the 02
Back in the 60s and 70s, almost every performance sedan was turned into a rally car by someone. Many were just experiments to prove that […]
Rallying The Cult Car
Back in the 60s and 70s, almost every performance sedan was turned into a rally car by someone. Many were just experiments to prove that […]
Delayed Departures and Connections
“Is the connection to the machine gone?” It was a completely random question from the departure lounge as I was awaiting a flight. I was […]
Motorsports PreSeason 2010
The new season is underway in F1, MotoGP, WRC, LeMans/Grand-Am/ALMS, WSBK, and elsewhere. Although only Grand-Am has had an actual race with the Rolex 24 […]
Gearhead Begets Gearhead
Some of us have fathers that were obviously car guys. They drove the coolest car in the neighborhood, and somehow managed to convince Mom that […]
Retrospective Recycling
The road to successful rebirth of once heralded motorcycle marques is strewn with the carcases of the fallen, and has relatively few spectacular winners. Indian, […]
2009 Top Ten
Something about this time of year causes people to make lists. Perhaps it stems from the annual holiday letters with the list of […]
Twas the night
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the garage Old vehicles were resting some small, and some large And nearby were fuses and wrenches […]