*From Telstar Logistics comes a post with news that filming for a movie based on Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” was taking place in San Francisco this past week, and that a few streets of SF were lined with all sorts of immediate pre- and post-war cars. Looks like I’ll have to move that book […]

Charles M. “Chuck” Jordan, retired General Motors Vice President of Design, has died at age 83. A California native, Chuck Jordan won the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition, and was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He soon joined the GM Styling Staff […]

Another car-related piece of pop culture from diskojoe, who writes: This is a sketch from a UK TV program done by John Cleese a year or so before Monty Python began called “How To Irritate People” that features Michael Palin & Graham Chapman that was a prototype of the “Dead Parrot” sketch that was based […]