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Back in 2007, when I bought my last new car, I wanted a red Chrysler 300C. Dealer tried to find one already in stock in Pennsylvania. None to be had, and I ended up special ordering one. My only ticket in a vintage Mopar was with my red '69 GTX at Carlisle in 2024. I beat the ticket. No...

I find a lot of stuff from that era extremely interesting, especially when seeing how it came to market. That doesn't mean I'd want it in my garage. I've been lucky to have had relatively cheap taste in Mopars, although my wife's opinion might differ.

I had a law professor who did an outstanding job of explaining banking and commercial transactions in the context of real world events. He was a fan of properly used credit cards, because of additional consumer legal protections not provided by instruments such as checks and debit cards. He had...

Running a tractor trailer generates significant cash flow in and out, and a few crumbs are left if good management prevails. When I started driving in the 70s, most of the old timers carried large amounts of cash. Didn't seem like a good idea to me, no recourse if you got rolled. I got a...

Both of us had a factory shroud as well. I've talked to some guys who didn't, and that creates an issue.

I consider my 2007 Lexus LS 460 that I bought last month a late model car. I've never owned anything newer. I was digging around tire well trying to find the socket for the locking lug nuts, and was amazed to find a full size spare. Got to wonder if I can still lift one of those. It wasn't a...

Just the hot girls. The last one was a real looker, and knew it. I took her out just to prove I could, and never asked her for a second date. She was furious, and asked me if I was gay, or if she had bad breath. My wife of 48 years was the next girl I dated.

I refuse to cut across the Penn State campus when driving to points east of where I live because of the concentrated volume of idiot pedestrians. A few years ago, one of them walked into the side of a moving bus and was killed. Not a lot of indicators that many of these folks are actually smart.

Wegmans by any chance? I worked with their in house bakery, they were one of the more impressive corporate producers I dealt with.

Like Don, I ended up with a 20 year career serving the food production business, transportation side in my case. When my law practice went under, and I ended up back on the truck, I was low man on board, and ended up with a haul none of the senior drivers wanted. I got stuck serving an outpost...

My junior year at Penn State, I got a part time job working in the student union building cafeteria, as a dishwasher and busboy. The $1.95 per hour starting pay wasn't a big motivator, but the all you could eat meal for 50 cents was a big deal during a time when I was consuming 5000 calories...

Awesome history! Thanks for being a caretaker.

I use a Monarch bolt in system with the original floor mounted gas pedal in my '69 GTX, and it works well. Prior owner of one of my former cars had the system in his GTX and recommended it. Seems to be easier bolt in than changing the pedal configuration. I bought the used assembly on ebay for...

During my four decades in the tank truck business, I soon figured out that the top 10% of drivers generated the bulk of the profits. The process was driven by the ability to unload difficult cargo in a timely manner, and thus increase the percentage of loaded miles within regulatory and customer...

It's worse with a tractor trailer, and really bad with a top heavy bulk tanker, or an unbaffled liquid tank with a slosh load. During my corporate tour I taught a defensive driving class during new hire orientation. All new employees attended, whether drivers or not. The key to avoiding a roll...

My attorney charges thousands of dollars, to save clients tens of thousands. Seems like a good deal to me, but my wife has always cried over the amount of the invoice.

My '69 with factory disc brakes has the original, but the car is a freak.

Not a Charger, but my 1969 GTX was a company car for the local Plymouth dealer for 15 years. It stayed on the floor plan for three years, until the bank made him purchase it in 1972. It was then titled to the dealership, and still ran dealer plates until it was sold in 1983. When I finally...

I had both my temperature and fuel readings go bad, but I got lucky that they failed at different times, so I was able to rule out the voltage limiter. I went through three temperature sending units which wouldn't read correctly, two of them later Mopar NOS, finally bought some old used OEM from...

When I was in private practice, I would advise potential clients with poor cases not to expect to win. I often got the reply, "it's a matter of principle." My response was always, "this is what it will cost you, and I need payment in advance." It didn't take long until I was driving a truck again.