Bucksaw Blade

I check the Crosley Auto Club's Crosley-Gang bulletin board every day - always good stuff, but this was too good not to share....

From Ken Knapp:

"That reminds me of the stories my Mom would tell of her car. She had a crosley through high school, teachers college and through her first years of teaching.They would move her car into the gymnasium."

"When she worked at the drive in, they would move her car between the car speaker poles so she couldn't get out. My grandfather was so annoyed with the kids doing it that he welded a bucksaw blade to the bumper. Let's say it never happened again (and one of the kids shows the scars to Mom at their 50th school reunion)."

Treasure Trove

In between all the storms a few weeks back, I drove down to Borrego Springs (waaaaay down south, near the Mexican border) and then back to Sacto the next day. 1100 total miles, and a little over 20 hours of driving.

The occasion was a long-delayed visit to Rick and Laura Alexander, the retired president and treasurer of the West Coast Crosley Club. They are moving out of their home in spectacular - but remote - Borrego Springs, and heading back to San Diego, from whence they sprang, ten years ago. 

RIP Robert Hansen - the man behind The Crosley Report

Woke up Monday to some very sad news: my friend Robert (Richard*) Hansen died of a pulmonary embolism last weekend.

Blast From the Past

Looking through some boxes of club archives tonight and found a set of photos from the 1995 meet - two years before I'd joined. Was VERY surprised to see a photo of the '49 Crosley convertible I bought in 1998! 

I had no idea that the previous owner had been involved in the club, but that's the same license number, and it looks about the same as when I bought it. 

Hard to say for sure, but I'll bet the white station wagon in the background is the one I have in my garage now...

WILD Crosley Stock Car Race Footage Found

Indefatigable Crosley fan John McKnight sent me a link to this recently-posted footage of indoor all-Crosley stock car racing from the fifties. It is NUTS.

Multipla in the Wild!

Here's something you don't see every day: a vintage Fiat Multipla parked on the street.

When Shit Goes Wrong

I got invited to ride along on a vintage car rally last week. My buddy Marcos takes his old Volvos out whenever he gets the chance, and spending Black Friday tearing around back roads in the wine country sounded like the perfect way to burn off some Turkey Day calories.