“Sandra, is that you?” His voice came over the telephone, just as deep as it ought to be when you measure six-feet-two from your crewcut to your white bucks. “What time should I pick you up tonight?” I was glad he couldn’t see my face as...
Producers of ground-breaking car designs since the 1920s, the Italian styling houses were the single most influential styling force in the motoring world by the 1980s. Italian stylists led not just fashion—wedge shapes or rounded—but whole concepts, such as the hatchback body style, adding glamour...
I wrote a note to Debbie asking her if I could see her but I never dreamed she would invite me to visit her and that we two would sit and talk...
By the 1980s, sedans were so refined that open sports cars became the preserve of hardy enthusiasts; speed-seeking drivers bought sports sedans instead. The surge in popularity of touring-car racing led manufacturers to build homologation specials—road models adapted to meet racing regulations—that would put their...
Rick is kind of shy, but awfully sweet Just as nice a boy as you’ll ever meet. He likes a picnic or a moonlight ride—Of course with a pretty girl at his side. One minute he’s serious, next he grins, Then laughs out loud when...
Through innovation, technical excellence, and competition-led promotion, Audi has become a giant of the motor industry. Yet this now-famous German name was dormant for around 20 years after World War II. Since finding a home under the Volkswagen umbrella, Audi has come to epitomize Germany's...
My father asked me what was bothering me. I had a room of my own in a big beautiful house in a good neighborhood. I had a car, six sports jackets and a generous allowance. I was going to a good school. My brother was...
I knocked at the big backstage door of the Brooklyn Fox Theater. Alan Freed, the big daddy of rock ’n’ roll, had invited us to a Big Beat session and then asked us if we’d like to go backstage to meet his singing stars. “No visitors,”...
“Girls should never pursue men,” says Dana Wynter. Then how did she win the most sought-after bachelor in Hollywood? “I have never once discussed my courtship,” Dana answered. But, then—to prove a point about American men, she did! “To understand how and why Greg Bautzer and...
Gee, she’s been married whole year, yet . . . ...