JANUARY 22, 2011: BARRETT-JACKSON DAY 4 – A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE OF EMOTIONS
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 FIFTIES AND HAPPY...
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 NEW FRIEND NAMED...
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 TO DO WITH...
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 AUCTION
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 CAR ROAD TRIP
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 THE BEST REASON
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 WITH NO ACTUAL...
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 WAS NEVER FAST...
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 WITHOUT PAROLE IN...
Paintings and sculptures belong in museums.
They have no moving parts and they justify an extremely weak argument that art history degrees are not...
