Occupation: Journalist Birth: October 21, 1933 Death: October 5, 2016
Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condo….
The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script….
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death..
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post wit….
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor..
The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the….
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exer….
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law..
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles..
If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the bes….
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, sli….
Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's..
I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren..
To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as the….
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark….
A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law..
At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ….
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race dr….
I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal b….
The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (ex….
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate..