CarPort

I’ve always had a fondness for the Edsel. As a car-consumed young person, I eagerly followed the gestation of Ford’s “E-car” in the press and broadcast news reports. When the car was unveiled on September 4, 1957, just five days before my 13th birthday, I was elated. The car was dramatic in a way that….
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Wayne Graefen collects interesting stuff. He just bought a whole car in order to get a set of vintage Port-o-Walls. If you’re around my age you remember Port-o-Walls; you probably even had them on one of your cars. Port-o-Walls were rings of white rubber that attached to your blackwall tires to make them look like….
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Fred Summers faults me for not including Studebaker with the cars of 1940 offering sidemounts. Truth to tell, I avoided mentioning Studebaker in the CarPort installment on fender-mounted spares because I wasn’t sure just when the South Bend automaker took them off the options list. To prove his thesis, Fred sends pix of this ’40….
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Our culture deems that when one year gives way to another we take stock and resolve to better ourselves for the next twelvemonth. In 1978, I resolved to build a garage. My car collection was under cover, but it was 25 miles away, which meant I spent more time driving to and fro than I….
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