When the chilly winds of March swirl outside a man’s thoughts turn to Spring, love and pretty women in flowery dresses. That’s if you are a normal person. If you are an old car nut than your thoughts turn to Spring Carlisle. Now don’t get me wrong your ole buddy Johnny B is just as smitten at the sight of a pretty dress on a curvy beauty as the next dude but after a long cold Winter it's time to look at old cars and 160 acres of parts and cool junk. Being my 44th time atten

If your old and craggly like me you remember the ole days before the internet and buying junk from a mail order catalog. Heavy hitters like JC Penny, JC Whitney, Radio Shack and perhaps the Grand Poobah of all of them was Sears and Roebuck Company. Back in olden times you waited with anticipation for the mail man to deliver a gaggle of catalogs enabling you to do mail order shopping decades before the Internet, Amazon, eBay, Google and online shopping were even a glint in th

I was raised in the 1960′s. In fact born July 4th 1960. So yes I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy and a big fan of an old fashioned American road trip. Long before cable TV, reality TV and Nav Systems people climbed in their no A/C bench seated road hogs and took a family trip. You had no I-Pod or videos just an AM radio and my Dad’s 1964 Buick Electra 225. Gas was cheap so if you got 12 MPG in your highway barge you were king of the road. We took alot of trips when I was young. We w

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