Charles Clark 
IN DESPERATE NEED OF ADVICE I am in an extremely desperate situation, so I am calling on my faithful newsletter readers for help. I just know you will not fail me. It is a matter of the highest, most extreme national importance that I drive from Los Angeles, California to Ithaca, New York. I have … Read more
To Get There Fast – Go Slow It sounds like an oxymoron, but there is some truth in that saying. Let me explain and see if you agree with my sentiment, or just feel that it is an excuse for slacking off. I have the serious affliction of needing to restore old cars to keep … Read more
In my last newsletter, I explained how I am expanding my level of communication skills and bringing them into the current century, which I am also applying to my writing skills. For example, I thought about writing: "It was a dark and stormy night with hard rain falling and lightning flashing. I had a foreboding … Read more
I just had my 85th birthday, which is a time for reflection and contemplation of the future. When you are 21, who in the devil thinks they will ever be 85, and if they do, what a calamity that must be! I certainly need to go on the offensive to avoid the “Old Fogey” label, … Read more
Let’s leave women out of this and chat about something that we know about and can understand. In this case, that means vehicles that we have owned, driven and perhaps for some of you — stolen. While cars are inanimate objects, they nevertheless have personalities. Some are real bitches that defy your desire to travel … Read more
INSTRUCTIONS – FROM DIRECT TO ARE THEY KIDDING? I was born in an era when communication between people, business and governmental entities was both sparse and simple. An extreme example: You got killed in action, and your next of kin received a four-line telegram. Now every communication has become very verbose, too frequent and often … Read more
The Culture of Car Clubs Over many years I have belonged to several car clubs. This includes Corvette, Chrysler, early Ford and now Lincoln Continentals. Each club has its own personality and a variation of how a local dealership responds to the presence of a club devoted to their brand. A dealership exists to sell … Read more
With the recent celebration of Halloween, I got inspired to write about the “tricks” of this holiday and how a haunted engineering mind sees the imaginary world. THE HAUNTED MIND Every year at Halloween, my next door neighbor fills his yard with a “Hollywood-esk” display of horrors that looks like the remnants of WWII. It … Read more
The Evolution of the Wish Starts with a White Horse As a youth growing up towards the end of the great depression and during WW II, it was a treat to be able to go out for a ride in a car. After my father was hospitalized, we did not have a car, so an … Read more
I have been asked to write about the acquisition and restoration of my 1940 Lincoln Zephyr Continental Cabriolet. Let’s just call it The Continental for short. Chapter One – The Night Owls It all started when the kid across the street was in high school. He had some buddies that hung out with him and … Read more