My brother John called me from his home in New Jersey. It was in the fall of 2006 and weather was starting to turn cool in anticipation of winter. Me, now living in the South Florida sunshine for the past 12 years, chided him for living so long with the raking of leaves and shoveling…
My Dad came with me when I purchased my first car. It was a 1967 Mustang that I couldn’t wait to trade for my 1966 Spitfire. Later I sold the Spitfire to my Cousin John Riley and told him he had to whack the wheel caps with this rubber mallet that I provided to keep…
On September 7, 2014, Milwaukee Midget Racing established a new Bonneville course record of 122.539 mph for the I/GT class. This was the oldest standing record in the GT category—it stood unbeaten for more than 22 years. The 1971 MG Midget, running a 999cc, 5-port A-series engine, and driven by owner Chris Conrad, ran a…
Sitting behind the wheel of an MG TC, for ten hours, one has the opportunity to contemplate. Contemplate at least, between moments of stark terror, as the car lurches about in a never-ending desire to escape the leash. Why is this taking so long? Only a few hours into a 470 mile drive from Petersburg,…
I met David Townsend in the vendor tent at the British Invasion car show in Stowe, Vermont, last year. I looked over his artwork and marveled at the detail. David introduced himself and after about a minute of conversation I knew this guy was the real deal. A commercial illustrator with an eye for high quality,…
In 2011, I bought a 1980 MGB-LE and shortly thereafter my wife and I joined the British Motoring Club of New Orleans. The club has about 155 members in five chapters covering an area from the Gulf Coast to Baton Rouge. The most striking thing about all of our group activities is that each of…
Last year my challenge was to get the TR3 on the road. But this year, I took the Moss Motoring Challenge. For the first few months, I didn’t really take it too seriously. Even after Prudence and I drove to San Francisco, and on to Seattle, I didn’t really think I had a chance. In…
This Moss Motoring Challenge was quite fun. This was our first year, we are not retired, and we live in the middle of Kansas. It was quite a challenge. The most memorable trip we made was to Western Kansas to get the letter Q. We were driving down I-70 when we saw a huge billboard…
January 2014: So there I sat, engulfed with despair, with only the memories of my dad to reflect upon. Although our vocations and interest differed greatly, during visits, the conversation would eventually gravitate toward automotive sports and vehicular adventures. His funeral now over, I needed a project to focus on and the healing process to…
It was a dark and dreary night in 1964 as the young student rolled onto the Kearney College campus in his newly purchased used 1959 Austin Healey Sprite. His pride and joy was a sports car that constantly drew admiring glances from the young girls, and life was good. The student used it for all…
