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    Old gas stations

    Well, I realize I have forgotten a lot of things I was interested in only recently. One of them was a wood-bodied station wagon. The reason for that was because a lot of the serials from the 1940s had one. And for all I know, it was the same one in all the movies. One movie, "Trader Tom of the...
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    Old gas stations

    One factor in the appeal of older cars to me is the simple fact that I wanted certain cars (not just one, of course) and never had them. Well, as it happens, I still want those same cars. Mostly they were new at the time but there were a few that were no longer in production by the time that...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    One thing about the Defender model is that the market for such a vehicle is not what it once was. I mean as a real off-road, back road kind of vehicle. True, you still see a lot of huge 4x4 pickup trucks, some of which actually get used off-road, sort of (construction sites). But they're all...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Well, even Subaru does something silly now and then. Remember the little pickup truck with the seats in the back?
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    Golden era food.

    My wife and I still eat oatmeal; both Quaker Oats and non-branded. She uses the regular, I use the quick variety. I will also admit to eating instant oatmeal that we keep on hand for travelling. We eat it differently, too. I like mine with sugar, margarine or butter (I'm not particular) and...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Interesting observations. I think some manufacturers simply abandoned the American market because their sales were relatively small and the American market could be rather fickle. Another thing was that some of them simply did not have cars that were suitable for American tastes at the time...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Life is so short and money so dear that one can only hope to have one or two, maybe three dream cars in one's lifetime. As I've mentioned before, I have a list as long as my arm of cars I would have loved to own that I had actually seen on showroom floors. There were many more that I had no...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Well, I somehow missed them, although I did buy a Renault Le Car ("La Cinq"), oh, sometime in the 1980s. But I don't recall seeing any of those other cars new, except for Peugeot, which the same dealer also had. Came close to buying a Peugeot wagon but bought a Volvo instead and had it for 18...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I was just checking the Land-Rover UK website and they no longer list the Defender, although there's a new Discovery model. I guess nothing lasts forever. It also seems like all of a sudden, sometime around 1971 or 72, all the interesting and desirable and for the most part affordable car...
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    Free Range Parenting?

    By no means do I claim that my opinions or my experiences were the same as anyone else's at school. There were some who drifted through school, some who were intense students (one became an MD) and so on. But most were average, almost by definition. When I went away to college, there were...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    You can still buy a Morgan sports car. And very appropriately, there is a dealer in the town where I went to school, Morgantown, West Virginia. I believe Morgans have reintroduced the three-wheeler, too. It isn't Indian-owned, either. I'd still rather have a Rover sedan but there's a long list...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I'd say that weird engineering seems to be highly desired in some vehicles and, as here, highly complained about. I had a Land-Rover (pre-Defender) and loved the thing. It had its shortcomings, to be sure. The biggest shortcoming was that it was being produced, if memory serves, and depending...
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    Free Range Parenting?

    College, on the other hand, can be the best years of your life. But I certainly never thought public school was anything like a jungle. I had lots of friends at school, including among the teachers, some of whom I would visit when I was back in my home town.
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    Pocket Knife

    Just as many people go to the emergency with knife wounds (intentional) as with gunshot wounds.
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    Free Range Parenting?

    There's a lot of chance involved in the life you live, starting before you're born. It's chance in the sense that you had nothing to do with where you were born, the family you had, the public schools you went to, and so on. Yet most kids turn out okay. I know from my wife, now a retired...
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    Free Range Parenting?

    I wanted to add here that, in my own childhood, the one I'm most familiar with, I realize there was an absence of many of the situations that have been mentioned here. Neither I nor my friends went to pre-school or kindergarten, played school sports, failed to make the team or anything like...
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    Free Range Parenting?

    While I understand, I think, what people are trying to say about adversity, hardship and rejection (but not failure so much), I'm not so sure about some of the examples. For instance, not making the team (rejection) I suppose can be trying but think of how few kids in school actually play on...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    My first requirement in a co-worker is that we get along together. If you're going to be working closely with someone, that's important.
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    Free Range Parenting?

    I hope you never told your children that the "F" they got in school was really good for them.
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