Welcome to Pop's Garage in beautiful downtown Beach Bum Cove. A mythical place where the clocks don't get wound, calendars don't get hung (unless they have old car pictures) and recessions never come. Pop still drives Dorothy Louise, his beloved Rambler Ambassador convertible but keeps his skateboard in the back for when he forgets her gas gauge tends to stick.

Tire Kicking is the place Pop puts articles and photo features about his favorite cars. Featured now is the 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser and The History of the Metropolitan. Both articles have links to other sites of interests for fans of the late American independent auto manufacturers.

In The Livery, you will discover that Pop also has a real thing for limousines and hearses. Friends in his car club own The '49 Crown Imperial and provided the original factory photographs that illustrate the article. Limousines & Hearses is a rare look at vintage professional cars owned by members of the Tri-State Chapter of the Professional Car Society.

Words & Pictures by owner Dave Simley

I had always been a Ford car person, the old ones. While on a hunting trip in Montana, I spotted an old car behind a building on the edge of Glasgow.

I told my son, Matt, “It looks like a Nash, and a convertible besides. Let's go look.” Sure enough, it was. Rambler was the only identifying mark on it. I decided that I was going to find out who owns it. Matt's reply was “Why would you do that? It's junk.” (to be continued)

Scale Models: Hearses, Limousines & the Independents

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The Links page has been re-edited, updating some web addresses and dropping some no longer available. All the great Web sites Pop finds as he surfs through his morning coffee. Interesting and historical photo, and fact filled, sites related to your favorite cars from the Independents plus, of course, Hearses and Limousines.