It was late spring 1969. This teenage farm boy had just experienced an event that was almost the equivalent of losing his virginity. School was out and I was helping a neighbor put up a fence across ...
In the fall of 1955, a buddy and I were going to West Texas College in Canyon, Texas. One afternoon, with nothing to do, we decided to drive to Amarillo, about 20 miles away. After driving around for...
Images via OldCarBrochures.com Around 1966, my wife Doris, our daughter Annette, our son Dewayne and I went to see the movie The Great Race , starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The ...
1970 Datsun brochure. Scan from editor’s collection. Truth be told, I’m a “gearhead.” Pure and simple and most probably certifiable as such. Let’s face it — I love cars. From my mid-teens on I was al...
1968 Pontiac Firebird 400. Magazine ad from editor’s collection. These stories usually start out with tales of how the writer had to work long and hard at all manner of menial jobs until he saved eno...
Here’s where Mike worked as a teenager. This photo was taken in the early 1960s, but the Humble station hadn’t changed. Mike was the youngest of a group of La Feria citizens who congregated most even...
Photo by Michael Gorgia. One evening in June 1977, my next-door neighbor Conrad introduced me to a friend of his who worked for Bally Shoes. He asked me if I was interested in coming with him on Frid...
The day that I fell in love with Chrysler products was the day that my dad pulled into our driveway in our brand new yellow and white 1957 Plymouth Savoy sport coupe. I was just 6 years old at the ti...
1940 Ford, excerpt from ad below. Image courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. One memory that I will never forget is about my father’s 1940 Ford Opera Coupe. It had the jump seats in the rear which, when not in u...
Photos by Robert Conant. I was born in January, 1940, and I spent the World War II years on my father’s lap reading the automobile ads in the Saturday Evening Post. As a result, I knew the cars of th...
Brochure image from the editor’s collection. It was the early summer of 1970 and I had a driver’s license and a couple of hundred dollars to spend on a set of wheels. This two hundred dollars was ear...
The Blue Bandit. Photos courtesy Randy Stone. I have owned several cars through the years, including a couple of Mustangs, a Plymouth Duster, a few pickup trucks, and, out of necessity when kids came...
Photo courtesy Charles Rosenblum. As a teenager in a small Ohio town, I had plenty of enthusiasm for cars, but not much exposure to exciting ones. In the early 1980s, long before the internet, inform...
I just turned 13 years of age in October of 1959 when a couple weeks later my Dad said, “let’s go look at some new cars.” The local Ford dealer in a Chicago suburb had two 1960 Thunderbirds on the lo...
Tom Hanson with his 1932 Chevrolet. Photo courtesy Tom Hanson. Approximately 100 cars ago, I cobbled together my first car – a 1932 Chevrolet. Fifty dollars bought a rolling body, sans engine and tra...
Brochure images courtesy Old Car Brochures. During the Depression years of the 1930s, and into 1940, my father kept driving his 1929 Hudson Super Six. It was getting quite shabby and worn when Dad ha...
1963 Cadillac Fleetwood 75. Brochure images courtesy of Old Car Brochures. There was just something about those Cadillac ads in the National Geographic magazines in the early 1960s. They dripped of e...
1951 Chrysler Saratoga magazine ad. Period advertising courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. For those of you who have never owned a 1951-’52 Chrysler Saratoga, you can’t imagine what great cars those really were...
1950 Ford Custom Tudor. Photo courtesy Art Bruns. Back in the early 1950s I was particularly attracted to the 1949-’51 Fords. When the new 1949 Ford was first introduced I thought it was the most mod...
1952 Hudson (L) and Meteor. Photos by Harold Wellenbrink. My Canadian car is a 1952 Meteor that was built in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and my American car is a 1952 Hudson Wasp which was built in Det...
Photo courtesy John Raffensparger, Sr. My Studebaker was a 1949 four-door Champion that was painted Cumberland Green, and in very good condition. The price was right – $400, which I borrowed from my ...
In the summer of 1957, right around my 6th birthday, I first got wind of the Edsel. I liked looking at my Dad’s magazines: Popular Science and Business Week. The June 22 cover showed James Nance, pos...
1971 Chevrolet Vega 2300 Hatchback Coupe. Photo courtesy GM Media. When I was 20 years old I was employed as an assembler at the Chevrolet Engine Plant in Tonawanda, New York. I started out working i...
Photos courtesy George Ormrod. I once had a 1949 Plymouth club coupe that was used in the Troma Classic feature film Space Zombie Bingo. This is a straight to DVD film I directed in my younger days. ...
1963 Chevrolet Corvette. Photo courtesy Glenn Hersh. I had given my 1962 Chevrolet Impala convertible to my brother when I left for overseas. What a sweet ride that was; and I had proven that 283-cu....