It is happening with great frequency these days – being called “Sir”. I am left to puzzle out why this is happening, and have some thoughts. I remember when I strove to be referred to as “sir”. It was that difficult time in my early 20’s when I was attempting the transition from teenager/college student…| J. P.'s Blog
No, not R2 as in R2D2 that everyone remembers from the original Star Wars movie. Today is about R2 in the world of Studebakers, which stands for a rip-snorting series of V8 engines that the company put into its cars in the last year or so of full operations in South Bend, Indiana. I will…| J. P.'s Blog
Do you like watching the world around you? I have found a great place for you. I am sitting in the waiting area of a tire store. First off, it is a place where nobody wants to be. It is not as bad as the waiting room for a hospital emergency room – I have…| J. P.'s Blog
Ok, it had to happen sooner or later. I ran into a problem with the letter Q and had to resort to finding a boring late model car in order to get a photo or 4. It was supposed to be under control.…| J. P.'s Blog
Lots of lawsuits are in the news these days over the ways government works. Or maybe over the ways government is supposed to work, as argued by the two opposing litigants. When results come out, the winners crow that justice was served and the losers argue that the judges were in the tank for the…| J. P.'s Blog
A century ago, there were three claimants to the throne for the top high-end car in America. Sometimes called “the 3 Ps”, they were Pierce (maker of the Pierce Arrow), Peerless and Packard. Packard was the only one that made it through the great depression and WWII. Unlike the other two, Packard made it by…| J. P.'s Blog
A confession: I love that genre of movie called “film noir”. They were mostly movies made on modest budgets from the mid 1940’s and into the early 1950’s. They were called “noir” not just because they were all filmed in black and white, but also because of the dark plots that often took an average…| J. P.'s Blog
Well, I must confess that I nearly went into a panic over the letter “O” after I burned up an Oldsmobile last week. However, a dive into my photo stash turned up one that I had forgotten all about. And who hasn’t forgotten about the Omni? If you ask most people what saved the Chrysler…| J. P.'s Blog
Did you know that August 6th is National Root Beer Float Day? Today’s post will perform double duty (or maybe provide two scoops) by offering a timely reminder of this important day of observ…| J. P.'s Blog
We are now on the downhill slope of this A to Z photo challenge, in which I peruse my car photos for models representing each letter of the alphabet. And, after last week’s Marmon Sixteen, today’s car is another way to go downhill. However, If you are too young to have ever seen a Marmon … … Continue reading →| J. P.'s Blog
We are now 12 weeks into my A to Z Challenge. To refresh anyone who has forgotten or who wasn’t here at the start, I have decided to comb through my photo archives to find pictures of cars wi…| J. P.'s Blog
The Jeep got its start as a military workhorse, but it has become one of the most favored SUVs for the modern suburban mom. Most people think that transformation began in the 1970’s, but they…| J. P.'s Blog
Since my last report, I have managed to plow through 8 audiobooks. As always, I have worked hard to stay out of the ruts that I tend to find myself in, and have kept things fairly well mixed and va…| J. P.'s Blog
I wrote some time back about my first job – one that was at a Burger King and lasted all of three weeks. The next job would last much longer, for better or worse. Here is the story.| J. P.'s Blog
First jobs result in the kinds of stories that fascinate me. Each of us has, at one time or other, had some pretty humble employment, something that we have (hopefully) grown beyond. Mine was at a …| J. P.'s Blog
