Work in Progress

And it begins! Work on the Rocket88 project is underway. My plan was to find an early 60s car for the project, and we found it: a 1962 Oldsmobile in Tres Piedras NM.  It is a model “Dynamic 88” with a solid body and nice rust patina, with faded paint and patches of smooth, bare, rusted metal. The Oldsmobile 88 was a popular car with its high performance V8 engine. In the day, this new “Rocket…

Inspired by Route 66 In 1959, when I was nearly four years old, my family went on a road trip from Los Alamos to El Morro and over to Zuni Pueblo. My dad was a backroad kinda guy, but it seems likely that some of that trip was driven on Rt. 66. Interstate 40 was just a dream then. I bet I slept most of the travel time in the old Plymouth as I don’t have…