Everybody’s gotta start out somewhere. Martin Carl Fischer, born in 1866 and a native of Zürich, Switzerland, was already a trained and accomplished watchmaker when the automobile became less of a tinkerer’s delight and more of an actual conveyance. Yet as the size of the automobile quickly ballooned in the years following the turn of […]
Frustrated Automotive Tinkerer Hall of Fame candidate No. 347: Alfred Raymond “Ray” Russell of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
In 1942, while the rest of the automotive world geared up for the production of war machines, and while every other backyard tinkerer spent his time dreaming up novel ways of defeating the Axis, Ray Russell set out […]
I co-authored this book, my first. That takes care of the full disclosure. The bigger news is that “Miller’s Time,” introduced last weekend, is a truly great, compelling story. That fact is solely due to its subject and my writing partner, Don Miller, whose life story would qualify as a work of fiction if anyone […]