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Platt du Jour: Two Poets, One Chevelle
Enchanted Mesa, New Mexico “About those car deliveries that you do,” my friend Tom said. “How would you like to take me and Marilyn with you on the next one?” His full name was Thomas M. Disch, and he...
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Platt de Jour: Blowout? – No Worries
Los Angeles, 1971. I was long-haired, feckless, aimless, jobless, and ready to deliver another car from coast to coast for AAACon, the Driveaway agency. I had about $150 for the seven days of the...
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Platt du Jour: Rust-Bucket Heaven
My neighbor Bob asked me if I wanted to buy a 1967 Buick Gran Sport. He had a friend in upstate New York who had been planning to restore the car, but needed money and was ready to sell. For $900, I...
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The Corporation: The Story Of My Father, A GM Executive; Part 1 – The Visit...
(first posted 9/4/2013) In 1957, I was a sickly 12-year-old English schoolboy when I went with my parents on a pilgrimage to General Motors headquarters in Detroit. My father, Maurice Platt, was...
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The Corporation: The Story Of My Father, A GM Executive Part 2 – From...
(first posted 9/6/2013. For those that didn’t make the jump to Part 2 the other day) In 1980 my father’s autobiography was published under the title “An Addiction to Automobiles”. I remember my...
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The Corporation: The Story Of My Father, A GM Executive; Part 3 – Viva...
(first posted 9/9/2013. Links to Part 1 & 2 at the bottom) My father’s retirement came in 1963, immediately after Vauxhall introduced the Viva, which was smaller than all of its postwar...
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Curbside Outtake: 1964 Pontiac “Rattlelina”– Got Visibility?
I was walking along a back street in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, where a lot of the guys in the neighborhood look like former extras from The Sopranos. Outside Steve’s Carburetor Shop I saw a rust-colored...
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