The Dirt Track is a Fickle Mistress

We spent a December Saturday at the East Coast Indoor Dirt Nationals in Trenton, NJ, recently, where we were reminded that a dirt track is a living, breathing thing, even when you dig it up and move it indoors. Dirt track operators across the country are all too...

A Unique Thanksgiving Tradition

Everyone has their Thanksgiving traditions.  Dinner with the family, of course, but maybe also going to the Macy’s parade, or listening to Alice’s Restaurant, or watching “Turkey’s Away” from WKRP in Cincinnati.  For us, it’s Laurel & Hardy’s 1933 classic March...

A New Event for an Old Track

A new one-mile dirt track was christened in New Jersey on October 6, 2018. Well, no, not really, the track has been there for 42 years.  But for the first time in its long history, the Meadowlands racetrack in East Rutherford, quite literally within view of the...

The Bland Blazer of 2020

The automotive news of the week is that the Chevy Blazer is making a comeback, albeit as a contemporary crossover and without the body-on-frame four-wheel-drive cred of its two prior incarnations. That’s the extent of the reporting that we have seen thus far...