The Old Coot is off the chart
You go to a doctor’s appointment and the first thing they do is check your blood pressure. Mine is always above the 150/90 threshold. It’s…
Editorial
Guest Editorial: Channeling Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s mindset and methods are still alive, and are apparently setting the stage for a repeating of history. In 1938, Chamberlain…
Cars We Remember – Collector Car Corner; Gas Station memories and publicity schemes
Q: Greg – thanks for all the nostalgia columns along the way. My area newspaper runs your column every week and I enjoy it very…
Pollution in the Mind Creates Pollution in Nature
The human race has become separated and increasingly out of step with the natural world. Earth and her capacity to sustain life are being destroyed. Fortunes of billionaires grow, even as we…
The Old Coot asks of change
This was written and published in 2004. Nothing has changed. Probably won’t. But, the issue has to be aired every so often. It’s time for…
Cars We Remember / Collector Car Corner; 1956 Mercury Monterey, Czechoslovakian Tatraplan and ‘57 Ford versus ’57 Chevy
Here we go with more reader questions. ’56 Mercury and ’57 Packard resemblance Q: Greg, I really enjoy your columns in Auto Roundup Magazine and…
Vice is Way Ahead: What Made Virtue Lose Its Fashion?
The deepest meaning of human relationships isn’t hate and aggression; it is love. We all seek love, and occasionally give it! But virtue is not so popular in…
The Old Coot nominates his own ‘Word of the Year’
The “Word of the Year” for 2021 was “Vaccine.” In 2020, it was “Pandemic.” In 2013 it was “Selfie.” Merrian-Webster, Oxford Dictionary and other Lexicographers…
Guest Editorial: The Real Cost of War
“We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them.” I’m not sure when I first heard that phrase. It seems to me that it…
Cars We Remember / Collector Car Corner; The four ‘fateful’ arrows’ that killed the famous Packard motorcars
This week, I’m printing the interesting info I received from Vince Consolo, who reads my columns in several publications and is a true Packard owner…