My mother was unimpressed with her first ride in a Cadillac. It was a 1977 Seville, and the car belonged to her friend and co-worker. More accurately, it was the woman’s husband’s “baby.” He’d always wanted a Cadillac, and he was one of many that were smitten by the first-gen Seville’s svelte styling. But my [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Rotary Ruminations
In a recent post, I referenced my fifth-grade science project, a car of the then-near-future powered by a Wankel rotary engine. But I was mistaken. I think it was sixth grade. So I was 11, not 10. That was spring 1975, and I was merely synthesizing what I was reading in Motor Trend at the [...]
