JANUARY 22, 2011: BARRETT-JACKSON DAY 4 – A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE...
The basic principle behind the collector vehicle experience is raw emotion.
Barrett-Jackson week can wring out a whole bunch of feelings that are not...
JANUARY 21, 2011: BARRETT JACKSON DAY 3 – LOST IN THE...
A little known fact about identical twins- we aren't exactly the same people, despite the overuse of stereotypes about clones.
This may seem like...
JANUARY 20, 2011: BARRETT-JACKSON DAY 2 – MY BROTHER MAKES A...
One of the dominant genes in our family pool is a car guy chromosome.
We don't quite understand the unnatural car attraction, but we follow...
JANUARY 20, 2011: WHAT DOES A DEAD SINGER’S HIPPY PHILOSOPHY HAVE...
The late Eddie Kendricks was a pop/soul singer with a modest solo career after a stint in the Temptations.
He hit number one on...
JANUARY 16, 2011: FIVE DANGER SIGNS TO AVOID AT THE BARRETT-JACKSON...
January is a month with very few redeeming features for car guys.
The collector car auction season makes the cabin fever go away for...
JANUARY 15, 2011: THE COASTERS CROSS CANADA TOUR-THE WORLD’S COOLEST CLASSIC...
The old car hobby is heavily steeped in nostalgia.
Logically, it makes no sense to invest in outmoded technology-if it did; we would have...
STARS IN REHAB:1966 CORONET PT. 1 – A TRIBUTE CAR FOR...
Todd Puzey is a City of Calgary, Alberta Canada firefighter (a city of over a million people) so it's more than fair to say...
JANUARY 15, 2011: THE WINNER OF THE TV CAR REPAIR HOST...
This is a horse race between Courtney Hansen and Dan Woods.
Both are familiar figures in the collector and hot rod hobby because of...
JANUARY 13, 2011: 240 GORDIE BONIN – A MILE A MINUTE...
The 70s were considered a fast decade.
The lifestyle was much faster and the rules were a little more relaxed during this era.
It was...
JANUARY 12, 2011: DO COLLECTOR CARS DESERVE SENTENCES OF LIFE...
Paintings and sculptures belong in museums.
They have no moving parts and they justify an extremely weak argument that art history degrees are not...
JAN 10, 2011: 2OTH CENTURY CAR FEATURES THAT 21ST CENTURY CARS...
It is very obvious that a new car is an engineering marvel.
The computer-assisted wonders of a new car are almost otherworldly in efficiency...
JANUARY 9, 2011: ANOTHER FUTURE COLLECTOR CAR FROM THE SORRY AND...
"Turning Japanese" was not only another horrific song from the brutal soundtrack of the Eighties.
It was a fact of life for North American...
JANUARY 8, 2011 THE 80S: WHAT IS GOING TO BE A...
The Eighties were a sorry decade.
The music sucked in an androgynous bad disco's illegitimate offspring way.
Sure there were a few highlights like...
JANUARY 7, 2011: DO WE REALLY NEED TO CAMOUFLAGE OUR WRENCHES?
I saw a segment on a popular car show that featured a unique set of wrenches.
Now I realize that most car shows are...
JANUARY 7, 2011: MODERN AIR CONDITIONING IN OLD IRON-HAVE BABY BOOMERS...
Well over 40 years ago, a legendary band called The Who wrote an anthem for the then youthful baby boomers called 'My Generation'. One...
JANUARY 2011 YOU CAN STILL PRETTY UP AN UGLY CAR WITH...
Recently I happened to spot a late model Bland-mobile sporting a set of whitewall tires. Not the giant whites found on cars into the...
JANUARY 4, 2011 A FORMER FARM BOY’S 1971 CHEVROLET DREAM TRUCK
Randy Holt left the family farm many years ago, but you can never take the country out of the boy.
He always had a...
HOW STACEY (GEARZ) DAVID GETS US TO DRINK GRAPE KOOL AID
I watched an old episode of 'Gearz' in which Stacey David tackled a rusty old Bronco that belonged to one trick pony-tailed rocker and...
JANUARY 3, 2011–1979 COLLECTOR SERIES LINCOLN MARK V
Like most car guys, Wayne Cooper always had one particular "must have" car on his wish list.
Most guys have familiar names like Corvettes,...
JANUARY 2, 2011 A 1965 PONTIAC GTO WITH A BIG BLOCK...
Larry Burt is one of those unpredictable guys at a car show.
Not because he has a hair-trigger temper-far from it in fact. Larry...