Kurt Vonnegut’s Saab Story

I was happy to see in The New York Times last weekend that the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library opened recently – though not quite as thrilled to learn that I’d have to trek out to Vonnegut’s hometown, Indianapolis, Indiana, to visit. Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle was heavily influenced by the author’s work as a […]

Starring role for the Silver Fox

Image courtesy Area Auto Racing News You would be excused for reasoning that those who follow motorsports, as with so many other pastimes, have short memories. Then something happens like the circumstance that saw David Pearson excluded from the initial group of inductees for NASCAR’s palatial Hall of Fame in Charlotte. That was almost a […]

SIA Flashback – The Mightiest Stutz of All

Back in the days when it took giant brass ones, a truckload of skill and more than a hearty helping of luck to race behemoth thoroughbreds on primitive tracks on waif-thin tires, Earl Cooper and his No. 8 Stutz dominated West Coast racing, both with and without factory backing. Fortunately, as of SIA #82, August […]