Easy Rider. Get your motor running!

Born to be Wild.
Maybe I wasn't, but that didn't stop my dreaming.

This movie connected with me in a special way. It combined my yearning for freedom and adventure with my love of motorcycles. With a splash of youthful rebelliousness.

Jack Olsen's 12 gauge garage, have you experienced it?


All photos from his website.

photo source: 12 gauge garage.com

Very tidy.

That is a nice table.

It does look like a '60s machine shop.

A sink would come in handy.

If this place isn't a dream, what is?

Organization really matters.

What makes this garage extraordinary certainly isn't it's size. It's on the small side even for a detached, back of the lot, two car garage. It's the creativity, thought, and work that has gone into it. It holds his hobby car, a Porsche 911 and the other half is for working and fabricating. That Porsche is a good choice of a car to form a long term relationship with.

Hot Rod magazine, Is the Renaissance over?

A bold claim, not easy to keep.
Have they kept their promise?

I've been reading Hot Rod Magazine for almost fifty years. 

In praise of a "throw away car." 1996 Mustang GT SN95,

This nice. clean example sports a chromed set of original 17 in. wheels.
There are still lots of cars like this out there.

I never really thought of it as a throw away car, but it seemed that way when I tried to sell it a couple of years ago. I guess that the car was too old for a young guy with a decent job, but not old enough for a guy looking for a classic Mustang project.

Dress for Success? 1977 Cadillac Coupe de Ville.

Portrait of the blogger as a Young Man.

MBAs, Condos, designer clothing.
The YUPPIE dream. Welcome to the 1980's

She set the bar pretty high.

This was the period of my life that reflected my greatest era of optimism.

Route 66, What this television show meant to me.

Route 66 premiered October 7th, 1960. I would have been six years old. It ran until March 20th 1964 with a total of 116 episodes. It was created by Herbert B. Leonard and Stirling Silliphant who also had developed the ABC television drama series "The Naked City." No wonder the stories were so compelling.

Time for the Mustang to get a little love. There's been a little too many of my memories, musings, and ramblings. Not enough work being done. Not enough progress reports.

Just call it the "Plastic Fantastic."

My car hobby doesn't exist in a vacuum, sometimes Life has more immediate concerns for me to deal with. I even managed to get quite sick. I thought it was just a cold and that I would power through it. That's what I usually try to do. It didn't work this time, I ended up with a walking pneumonia. Luckily I did go to the doctor for treatment, but the delay caused my illness to continue for at least another week.