Category Archives: cars

An American Romance

October 26, 2013 – 6:30 pm

America was the first nation to fall in love with the car. Henry Ford’s assembly lines produced affordable vehicles for the masses. Gas was cheap and roads were open. The number of automobiles rocketed from hundreds to thousands to millions. The present number of cars in the USA is over 300 million, however more and […]

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Get Da Jag

July 27, 2013 – 6:59 pm

My friend Cynthia from the Bush Tetras was looking for a car in LA. Only losers walk in the City of Angels. A pale-yellow Jaguar E-Class caught her eye and she wondered whether she should purchase it, if only in her mind. “Get da Jag.” I green-lighted the buy. Back in the 1960s two teenage […]

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Tardy No More

June 21, 2013 – 3:56 pm

School’s out for summer. The yellow school bus has been retired for the off-season, however come the fall the American icon will serve cities, suburbs, and rural communities from Alaska to Florida. Type C has been very popular with most school boards with its no frill seating to deliver ninety little bodies with year-round dependability. […]

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Painting Like Warhol

June 1, 2013 – 12:36 pm

In 1969 my friend Joe Gator hand-painted his Chevelle SS white and slapped a ragged black slash down the middle. “It’ll make it go faster.” I think the BC High senior used the same paint as Warhol slopped over this BMW M1. Andy echoed Joe’s comment, “I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car […]

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Big Cars Times Square

October 6, 2012 – 12:29 pm

Back in 1975 the population of the USA was approximately 220 million. Our cars were big and the price of gas was 60 cents a gallon. Manhattan was slightly depopulated from White Flight, so driving through Times Square was fun in a big Detroit car. We also drove big cars, because they were made to […]

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