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Just surfing around sightseeing this morning and this beauty from 1954 caught my eye. Pontiac's Motorama star for 1954 was its first sports dream car, the Bonneville Special. Using a name that would make the production cars in 1957 and never let go, the 100-inch wheelbase and fiberglass Bonneville has a transparent plexiglass roof with opening panels over the seat to aid access...

Dear Dub, Do you believe in jinxes? I hadn't had a flat tire in almost 20 years. Then I made the mistake of saying that out loud and the next day I ran over a utility knife blade that caused an unrepairable flat on a tire that only had about 5,000 miles on it...

My year has two seasons: car show season and the rest of the year. Car show season begins the Wednesday before Easter for the New York Auto Show and the end of the season is when I leave the Fall Hershey event in October. After that, it’s a dreary winter of anticipating another car show...

While doing some information gathering for financial planning for my Mom, I came across a curious letter. She was a GM shareholder and got a letter from Rick Wagoner last July that I thought I would share with the class. July 15, 2008 Dear Stockholder, I am writing to you to tell you about significant actions announced today in response to the worsening economic and automotive market conditions we are experiencing in the U.S...

With the deadline for Chrysler to get a deal done with Fiat just around the corner, things aren't exactly looking favorable for getting that deal done. Fiat has enough wayward offspring to support without Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne trying to persuade investors Thursday that he can add Chrysler LLC to the brood by an April 30 deadline set by the U.S. government...

The Virginia Department of Transportation is trying a new strategy to slow us down on the roads, zig zag lines on the roads. I've seen the dots on the highway to help maintain proper spacing between vehicles and control speed and they seem to work in the places I've seen them, so why not squiggles? I bet it would definitely work if you made the center line zig zag!..

AR Index     441.37  -35.92  (-7.53%) Stocks of individual interest Toyota  75.79  -2.92 GM        1.66    -0.05 Ford      3.69    -0.57 Dow  7841.73  -216.08   (-2.68%) About five weeks to go until the deadline for GM to come up with a plan for restructuring and investors are reacting to the uncertainty just as you might expect by staying away from GM stock. Just looking at that chart of GM's share price over the last year lets you know that something has to change and change soon. I've said it before and I'll say it again...

It's always a good idea to have an alternate route in mind, just in case you run into some unexpected construction or traffic. You always want to be making progress towards your goal. GM, which has received $13.4 billion in government loans, is working on parallel strategies: one that would restructure the automaker outside of bankruptcy court and another that would reorganize it inside...

We'll be making the return trip home from Richmond to State College, PA in a few hours and I'm looking forward to the wild ride as we tackle not one, but two loops. That Griffon roller coaster at Busch Gardens has nothing on the defensive driving I'll be engaged in on the Capital and Baltimore Beltways. Time for  a Sunday drive!

Dear Dub, With all due respect, I think you were pretty hard on TunerBoy last week. Instead of mocking him for the modifications and customizing he's done to his car, we should be celebrating his creativity don't you think? His car is his vehicle for self-expression and we all should be sensitive to that and appreciate that which we don't understand...