This is an article I wrote for Classic Car Magazine in 1990 interspersed with lots of my cartoons about driving.

1951 Plymouth And Me in 1987

Getting Sixteen Miles per Rolaid in a 1951 Plymouth

When my great aunt in Tacoma first handed her 1951 Plymouth, The Grey Ghost, over to me, she barely let me drive it around the block. The suggestion that I practice on side streets early on a Sunday morning sent her into hysterics, disconcerting, since I planned to take the car home. Home was 3,000 miles away in Washington, D.C. Continue reading →