The Automobile and American Life

This blog will expand on themes and topics first mentioned in my book, "The Automobile and American Life." I hope to comment on recent developments in the automobile industry, reviews of my readings on the history of the automobile, drafts of my new work, contributions from friends, descriptions of the museums and car shows I attend and anything else relevant. Copyright 2009-2026, by the author.

Monday, August 9, 2021

Can you list all the cars you have owned?

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This gentleman serves on the Cugnot Committee of the Society of Automotive Historians that I chair.  He is retired in Florida and just compi...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Cadillac Bob Werner's !957 Eldorado Brougham at South Bend

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  Bob's 1957 is absolutely magnificent. Thanks to Ed for the photos. Those shot glasses remind me of a UD student who had 6 Jagermeister...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

1981 Lectra Motors Lectra 2+2 - Will It Charge?

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I watch Steve's "This Week with Cars" whenever he posts a new program. Usually it sabot old cars and his ability to get them t...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Robert's 4.2 Jaguar XKE, Greene County Cruise-In, August 6, 2021

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 He bought it new as a a 15 year-old in Monroe, Michigan, and has owned it ever since. You can see it and many other British Cars -- MGs, Tr...

Walter Wanderwell Trades his Hanson for a Moon car, June of 1920

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 Clipping from Los Angeles Evening Express, 12 June, 1920, p.14. More possible distortions -- we know that the Hanson was the car that did t...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Wanderwell in Mexico, May, 1920. His Encounters with Pancho Villa! Was He a German Spy?

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  Walter Wanderwell remains an enigma, and my making sense of him is limited by the newspaper sources I have access to. We left Walter in Lo...
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