Enthusiast Blogs

Cars: I think about everything in terms of automobiles. I'm a car nut. I hang around with a bunch of fellow car nuts and gearheads. Except for the categorical Objects of our Obsession, we are no different that sports nuts, quilting enthusiasts, collectors of beer cans and train hobbyists.

Opinions: I've been opinionated since I was four or five. And never afraid to voice mine. (At first, my parents thought that was cute. Later ... very annoying.) I've been interested in politics since high school; the first Presidential election I followed was 1960. I watched the Kennedy-Nixon debate on television and, on election night, sat in front of the set with a piece of graph paper, plotting the returns as they came in and trying to extrapolate and project a winner.

I describe my politics as Pragmatic - Libertarian with a dash of Republican. Or Republican with a dash of Libertarian. Depends on my mood. And the phase of the moon. And whether or not I'm baying at it.  I used to consider myself Centrist. Until the Center shifted.

Work: I have a Mechanical Engineering degree and was employed in both the rubber and plastics industries. I owned my own plastics manufacturing company from 1977 through 1989. Since then, I have been an independent management consultant, focusing on small to mid-sized companies. I am now mostly-retired and, therefore, have time to blog.

Writing: I've had articles published in numerous magazines - business, technical and automotive. I'm a three-time winner of the Golden Quill Award - for writing and publishing - from Old Cars Weekly. For eight years, I wrote a newspaper column, Doin' Business. I have authored or co-authored a total of seven books and contributed to several others.

Life: I'm happily married - once only, in 1966 - to the love of my life and have two wonderful grown children. I live in the Pacific Northwest, although I spent the first 35 years of my life in the Philadelphia area.

The Jalopy Journal was formed just a few years later to spread the gospel of traditional Hot Rods and Kustoms to Hoodlums worldwide.

We wanted to be the voice of the working man, a tool in the toolbox of the guy that does it himself, and a place where citizen journalists could show the “big-time” media a thing or two. We haven’t done it all yet, but we aim to in time…

Kultivate's Personal Weblog

Welcome to the PansyPatrol. Here you will find news, technical articles, and lessons for anybody who owns, fixes, races, modifies, or otherwise beats their cars.

It's all about the Performance!

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The Car Blog, or TCB for those who are acronymically inclined, is alive because some of today’s top Web designers needed a place to drool and bitch about their motor vehicle obsessions. We won’t always talk about cars of course. Sometimes we will talk about trucks. Or motorcycles. Perhaps a motor-powered bicycle at some point as well.

Comments are always on because TCB isn’t just a soap box; it’s a soap box in the middle of a public square with a lot of people yelling, “Shut up,” and “No, you shut up!” We hope the conversations are a bit more civil than that of course. Comments are moderated, mostly by the article’s author, so feel free to be challenging, but don’t undermine. Yes, there is a difference. One gives us the opportunity to improve, the other just pisses us off.

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