A few weeks ago my cousin, Kathy Magee, posted an old photo on FB of me standing beside my new Mazda RX-7 parked on her parent’s farm. Dave Murra is in the background. In my twenties with a permed head of hair, one of my fondest memories is explaining the… Continue reading
No one told me, in my school life grades 1 – 10, I was smart. It was quite the opposite. No IQ test, just the underlying assumption that, I was “slow.” My mother never gave up on me, but suffered years of my ambivalent disinterest in school, barely passing grades,… Continue reading
Yesterday (August 7, 2021), I had a delightful FaceTime conversation with the gentleman who purchased my Lotus Elan from the dealer in California who’d acquired it at the Gooding Auction earlier this year. It is now on its way to his forever home in the UK to join a small… Continue reading
In the early 1970s, after purchasing my Lotus Elan, I was working at Schaak Electronics in Rochester Minnesota. We were suffering yet another long and exceptionally cold winter. Little did I know, the following spring I was going to experience one of those self-realizations and experiences that would forever change… Continue reading
Okay, no surprise, I’m a car guy. Everyone knows it. I’ll not clog this newsletter with information on my collection of three of the most iconic cars of all time: a 1969 Lotus Elan, a 2002 Acura NSX and a 2014 McLaren MP4-12C, although the McLaren makes an appearance later… Continue reading