JOSHUA TREE, CA – No matter what I write here, my description of the event is going to sound cliche. Seriously. Babes Ride Out was one of those events you simply had to experience. But… I’ll give it a try. First of all, there were no pillow fights. We didn’t stand around talking about how empowered we…
CALIFORNIA HIGH DESERT – Do you know Herb Alpert’s THE LONELY BULL? If you don’t, click and listen. Ahhhh… the moody wail of Alpert’s trumpet. The tune has become our anthem, of sorts, and inspired the name for this 1990 Harley-Davidson Heritage Classic, otherwise known as the Lonely Bull.
MORONGO VALLEY, CA – Social media is an odd thing. I’ve made tons of virtual friends through Instagram and Facebook, many I’ve never met, some I’ve had only a brief encounter with, but somehow, I feel a part of their lives, you know? Take for example the Babes behind Babes Ride Out (an all-girl annual motorcycle campout). I’ve…
My Feller has a saying: “Nobody ever listens to old Brian!” In this case? He was right. I should have listened. When I bought my ’48 Ford in 2006, the truck had a barely running mid-50s OHV6–not the coolest motor. For Christmas that same year, Brian surprised me with a flathead, an early 50s Mercury…
WINSLOW, AZ – It’s one thing to admire a beautiful car at a show, quite another to watch one drive through a charming old town like Winslow, Arizona and know this particular classic isn’t going three miles to a local root beer stand, but from one end of the country to the other. We got lucky…
TORRANCE, CA: So you drive a classic car, but how much do you know about the fashion of the era from which your car came? Like for instance, I drive a 1948 Ford F1. I’m thinking big shoulder pads, narrow-waisted jackets and skirts… or pants if you go the menswear route, like Katharine Hepburn. What…
February 3, 2014 – If you’re friends with me on either Facebook or Instagram, you’ve probably seen teaser pictures of our new project, a 1936 Harley-Davidson VLD: like the first picture I posted of the gigantic headlight and springer front end, or the flathead engine, or the Picasso-like top of the tank (I first wrote tank…
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – January 20, 2014 – Never has there been a car with a cooler name than the Astra-Gnome. And the logo! Isn’t that the snazziest thing you’ve ever seen??? And I got to see this phenomenal creation in person! How fantastic is that?? Almost as fantastic as the name… Astra-Gnome! Sorry. I…
Welcome to my New Year’s Ramble! If you’re looking for something profound, you probably won’t find it here. But I can give you a tired old rant about freedom, like Peter Fonda in the Roger Corman classic, WILD ANGELS… [quote] “We wanna be free… free to do what we wanna do… we wanna be free…