Jim's Profile

Welcome to My Star Collector Car. I am part of an identical twin act that will do the heavy lifting for the written word on this website.Jerry and I both did significant time in university as English majors where the bulk of the assignments involved singing the praises of dead guys with a flair for creative writing. The trick was to stay awake long enough to plow through an overdose of Shakespeare and his buddies without sliding uncontrollably into a boredom- induced coma. Then I had to write long papers about these clowns;an exercise which was more pointless than one might think. The upside was the exercise made it easier to write about things that actually interested me.I have spent the last 29 years as a freelance columnist for a daily newspaper in which I have discussed a wide variety of subjects which cover my actual interests, none of which included topics from my university assignments. One of my favorite subjects has always been cars and I have touched on this topic many times over the years in my columns.It is always easier to write about something that you really like, so this online car magazine is a very good fit for me. Jerry and I share a similar affection about the cars from our baby boomer past,but you don’t have to be a twin to love the vehicles from yesteryear.Car guys and girls understand the game and the common bond that brings all of us into these old iron Woodstock moments at countless car shows every year.We plan to cover as many of the car stories as we can at My Star Collector Car because these are the stories that need to be told, and we’re the messengers for car people because we are car people. I share Jerry’s obsession with cars because we grew up in a household where the automotive world was an important element of our late father’s interests. We lived on an acreage where he would shuffle in Model A trucks and cars which were reminders to him of his own youth. He subscribed to every available publication in the 50s and 60s including Popular Science, Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics and Science & Mechanics .We absorbed all of the information including the car tests and the new car previews in an era when cosmetic surgery was an annual ritual for Detroit. It was an exciting time every autumn when the local dealerships brought in the new talent that finally jumped off the pages onto the local car lots.The funny thing is that I still get excited about the same cars and I get why my dad brought home all of those old cars from his days as a kid. It really is a no-brainer for any car guy to want the cars from his past, whether or not he owned one or merely salivated over the prospect as a ten year old who had yet to discover girls.I look forward to the opportunity to tell your story because I believe that every old car and truck has an owner with a story to tell. We’re just the guys to make that happen here at My Star Collector Car because we get it when it comes to four wheels and unconditional love. It’s kind of like writing about Romeo and Juliet, only interesting and with a steering wheel and a big block. Cheers Jim Sutherland