CYCLING THE TYROL—IN 1905 PART 1
MY 1905 BAEDEKER’S AUSTRIA-HUNGARY is prior to the commonality of motor cars, so I frame these tidbits of travel here in Part 1 around cycling, which is more than adequately … Continue reading
BOSTON BLACKIE—REFORMED JEWEL THIEF
BOSTON BLACKIE WAS BILLED AS “enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.” With this convoluted moral message, he entertained readers of pulp … Continue reading
PUR SANG PERUSING
THE TERM PUR SANG is French for “thoroughbred,” literally “pure blooded.” Pur Sang is also the quarterly publication of the American Bugatti Club, and has been so for more than … Continue reading
AV R&D MADNESS
I AM LESS THAN ENTHUSIASTIC about autonomous vehicles. To confirm this, you need only check out a few examples here at SimanaitisSays: “Where Are Self-Driving Cars Headed?” February 21, 2016, … Continue reading
LIFE-CHANGING LINER NOTES/ALBUM COVERS PART 2
YESTERDAY, I BEGAN recollections of LP and CD covers and liner notes residing in my memory. Today in Part 2, we’ll learn more about Switched-On Bach, Handel’s Water Music, and … Continue reading
LIFE-CHANGING LINER NOTES/ALBUM COVERS PART 1
AMONG THE ATTRACTIONS of a traditional LP record album, and to some extent, even a CD jewel case, are the artwork and textural material accompanying the music. Here, in Parts … Continue reading
SETRIGHT’S THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1954/1966 PART 2
L.J.K. SETRIGHT SET HIMSELF a major challenge in continuing Laurence Pomeroy’s authoritative two-volume The Grand Prix Car. And L.J.K. did just fine, thanks, in composing knowledgable comments of a fascinating … Continue reading
SETRIGHT’S THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1954/1966 PART 1
“THE IDEA,” L.J.K. SETRIGHT WROTE, “that I should play Sussmeyer to Pomeroy’s Mozart is one that seems to have occurred, after his lamented death, more or less simultaneously to my … Continue reading
STUDEBAKER LAND CRUISER V-8—ROAD TEST A-1-51
ROAD AND TRACK’S FOURTH road test in its coded series was A-1-51, its first American car of 1951, the Studebaker Land Cruiser V-8. The magazine continued with its separately stated … Continue reading
ON THE TRAIL OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
I’M ENJOYING STEPHEN BROWNING’S On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes, a fine addition to my collection about this first and most famous of the world’s Consulting Detectives. Conan Doyle the … Continue reading
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