When I started my effort to design and market a fuel injection system for flathead Fords, I suspected it was a business designed to fail, and it was successful in that regard. The concept was too radical for the market, and even with a very low profit margin, it was too expensive for the average … Read more
There has been some recent news in The Denver Post and a lot of chatter on the local social media channel about drag racing on public streets and even on the interstate highway. Racing, or more correctly quasi racing, on public streets is hardly a new phenomenon. It is just the way that it is … Read more
The hobby of cars (referring to old, classic cars) is full of labels, most of which do not have a rigorous definition. I previously discussed different understandings of the term “classic,” which involves the meaning being based on the experience and point of view of the beholder. Earlier definitions get modified to suit the experience … Read more
Another Christmas has passed, and another tumultuous year is closing. My very concerned neighbors must have thought that since I now live alone I might be starving to death, so they furnished me with more goodies and delicious food than I eat in a month. I have such thoughtful neighbors! I am past the point … Read more
Here is the latest update on the 1962 Pontiac restomod. When making a car that has never been made before by taking an old design and adding new components, there are a significant number of unique design and fabrication tasks that have to be accomplished. If these tasks are conducted with attention to detail and … Read more
This will be a short update as I am focusing a lot of time on my restomod. When I refer to a “ground up restoration,” I am thinking about what I am doing to my 1962 Pontiac Catalina, not what a butcher does to make hamburger. However, if you get clumsy during a restoration, the … Read more
Many of my readers know me personally and know about the recent dramatic changes in my life. For those readers I have not yet met, let me fill you in. On March 8, my 92-year-old wife of 59 years succumbed to insurmountable medical problems. One hundred days before my wife’s passing, my son died of … Read more
THE AGE I LIVED IN Sometime after the Paleozoic era, I used to design medical instruments. Most of the instruments were one-off special purpose designs to support aerospace medicine research. Would you believe one of the designs were brainwave amplifiers to record implanted monkey brains while undergoing zero G stress in the “Vomit Comet” airplane? … Read more
Years ago when I went to Lakeside Amusement Park, I played a game called Whac-A-Mole. If you ever experienced it, you remember that you hit the mole that pops up and pound it back into its hole. As soon as you knock a mole back in its hole, another pops ups for you to hit. … Read more
I actually have a degree in biology, but I never really did any serious professional work. The knowledge came in handy after I got my engineering degree to do some serious work in the field of medical instrumentation. The reason that I deserted biology is that my brain wasn’t quite wired for biology, and I … Read more