An Anniversary worth noting and celebrating.

The welcoming highway beckons to me.
This is what my drivers license has delivered.

It's been over Fifty years since I obtained my drivers license. In many ways it was perhaps the best day of my life. 

This anniversary was something that I'd overlooked. For some reason I thought that I was going to turn 66 years of age this year. I'd forgotten that actually I'd turned 66, last year! 

I hadn't really thought about all this until yesterday.

 The Next Big Thing?

I found this video featured in a comment this morning on Curbside Classics. 

 Spinning my Wheels. 

photo source: depositphotos.com.
Vainly trying to gain traction.

             

I find myself in a familiar position, standing still when I would like to move forward. For much of this time I haven't been putting any power to the wheels, I've just kind of letting it sit where it is, and settle into the muck! I've just let things sit for the most part. It's time to try to make a little forward progress. 

 Now that the Holidays have passed it's time to get back to work.

Serpentine belt and pulleys.

My Explorer has been making a low moaning sound upon start up for quite a while now. It's intermittent and usually goes away after it warms up. It hasn't gotten any worse so it'd been pretty easy to ignore. I made an inspection of the serpentine belt and pulleys and didn't see any noticeable wear. 

 Remembering Thomas Murray and Car Collector magazine. 

It was great while it lasted. 

I subscribed to Car Collector magazine back in the 1990's. It was a well produced collectible automobile magazine of high quality. Unfortunately it suffered a downsizing move and a switch to lower quality paper at the end of the decade. I let my subscription run out after that. 

Thinking about old Cadillacs, a little bit more.

My car looked just like this one.

It's hard to believe now, but twenty year old Caddys were once commonly found on used car lots. I had my eye on a particularly nice '58 Coupe de Ville, but it was sold just before I unloaded, ahem, sold the Pontiac.  I was disappointed, but I just kept cruising by the used car lots that lined E. 14th. St. from San Leandro to Hayward.  As luck would have it I found a very clean Sedan De Ville hardtop. Yes, I would have preferred a coupe, but four door hard tops are pretty cool, and I'd lusted after that '56. 

 Later model Mustangs. A design analysis. Part Two.

A very successful retro design.
I do love fastbacks.

The 2005 Mustang was much anticipated by enthusiasts. Truthfully it was overdue. The SN 97 models  spanned a lot of Mustang fans youthful years. 1994 to 2004. Eleven years is a long time, but not as long as the previous Fox bodies. Their run spanned from 1979 to 1993,  15 years, a surprisingly long run. For many Mustang enthusiasts, the Fox body and and SN 97 "are" the real Classic Mustangs. These are the only ones that they had ever known in their youth.