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Year: 2025
Random Shots
A road sign with a sense of humor?
I have long thought that American government could communicate more effectively if it used a senes of humor once in a while. Thus, I was intrigued by this sign on an obscure rural highway in […]
Quotes
Remembering the dark side of 1960-70s American ‘muscle cars’
“Don’t want to rain on the parade of a nice article, but reading about Duster 340’s always makes me sad. Back in 1970 a close friend skrimped and saved all his money from summer and […]
Design Notes
First-generation Scirocco was trendy but didn’t look like a Volkswagen
(EXPANDED FROM 1/16/2023) Yesterday Aaron Severson weighed in on the original Volkswagen Scirocco, so this is a good time to expand on a piece I wrote a few years ago after finding a rare — […]
Gallery
1971-72 Dodge Demon shows Chrysler both at its best and worst
The 1971-72 Dodge Demon is a weird historical anomaly in that it showed the Chrysler Corp. at both its best and worst. Giving the compact A-body an entry-level sporty coupe turned out to be the […]
Data Dive
What if Robert McNamara had killed the Lincoln brand?
(EXPANDED FROM 6/16/2023) A few years ago Jim and Cheryl Farrell’s articles about the 1961 Continental’s development got me thinking about what might have happened if Robert McNamara had succeeded in killing the Lincoln brand. […]
Multimedia
Jay Leno gives Tesla a helping hand in its time of need
Jay Leno’s Garage (2025) recently offered an upbeat “first drive” of Tesla’s facelifted 2026 Model Y. The centerpiece of the video was an interview with the car’s head designer and engineer, Franz von Holzhausen and […]
Drive-By Musings
How much did postwar automakers decontent cars to keep the price down?
Indie Auto commentator Peter Wilding (2025) raised a good point when noting that he “never understood the idea of deliberately decontenting a car to be able to advertise a lower price, when hardly anyone actually […]
Photo Essay
Willapa Bay can be a surreal drive back and forth in time
(UPDATED FROM 2/26/2022) Willapa Bay can be a lonely place, with mile upon mile of tidelands with nary a gas station in sight. Instead, vast expanses of mud flats are occasionally punctuated by dead trees […]
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