There were some pretty nice car sales to benefit charity in this year’s Pebble Beach auctions but unlike with the least expensive car donated selling for over $50,000, they are not the run of the mill type of auction. For the rest of us who have cars that we no longer use, need or want, changes in charitable donations have been tightened up quite a bit in the last couple… [[Continue reading]]

High fuel costs are impacting us in ways that we probably never realized. It is now being reported that traffic reduced 9% nationwide between January and May of this year. That number seems pretty low to residents of larger cities and in Los Angeles, I can tell you from personal experience that journeys that used to take 1 1/2 hour will often only take 45 minutes. It is changing the… [[Continue reading]]

My former mother-in-law is famously quoted as saying:
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
What most do not know is that she usually would go on to add “And hamsters don’t love anybody.”

I am thinking of this because my daughter, a full on 14 year old, a girl version of Legolas, recently announced to me that she doesn’t want… [[Continue reading]]

This blog was written 1 1/2 years ago by a good friend who an industry expert & veteran of the automotive industry. Steve loves all things cars and has taught me an unmeasurable amount about the industry. I wish that he would write more often but for now I wanted to share this insightful review of the movie, Who Killed The Electric Car.
I wasn’t able to see this… [[Continue reading]]

Okay- it wasn’t so funny but read and beware if this should ever happen to you!

One day I decided that I wanted to go to a plant sale at the Huntington Gardens.

We got a bit of a late start. Dogs , kid, hair (mine)…you know how it is! We needed gas so I drove to our corner store and start to pump the daughter… [[Continue reading]]