Clifford T. Nutt Sports Cars. 245 w. Foothill Blvd. Monrovia, CA.   MG, Austin Healey, Jaguar, Volvo dealer.   I got a job washing cars after school, during holiday breaks, and summer vacation. I was a Lot Lizard, pick up and deliver cars, mechanics helper, worked the lube rack, stock boy in the Partsd Dept. and eventually front counterman. Best Job Ever.  Got to drive amazing cars and worked with some of the best, worst, craziest, most interesting people. Some were really smart, some not as much. That was 1968. Been messing around with cool cars and interesting people ever since. Sometimes you just get lucky.   ... View more

Cosmetic lowering. Looks really cool - like it would improve lap times. However car can no longer be driven, as driveways are all too steep, cross streets must be taken at a 45 degree angle at 2 MPH to avoid scraping off the exhaust system and/or causing bodywork damage, a pull-tab or frost heave may require dental repair, and somewhere around 55 MPH on the freeway a cyclic porpoising effect can cause collateral brain damage. While looking good, though. ... View more

Rod bolt. First race of the season. Riverside Int'l Raceway. Between the dogleg and T9 @ about 8100 RPM. Blew holes in both sides of the block, cut the oil pan in half, I spun in my own oil and backed 'er into the boilerplate wall still going Goodness Gracious fast. Shortened the car about three feet. The sudden stop jerked the engine off the mounts and punched the starter motor armature and bendix out through the cast aluminium end plate and it rolled down the banking. A thoughtful corner worker tossed it back into the seat. The cherry on top. And yes, I built the engine. ... View more

1968 Mustang. 302 4 speed. Bought the year I graduated from High School, 1971. 248,000 (hard) miles later my son learned to drive a stick in it and it was his car in High School as well. We both thought we were a Cool Breeze in High School in the same car!!  ... View more

Seattle to Los Angeles 17 hours. No fuss, no stress. Comfy and capable with a slippery holster. ... View more

Bugeye Sprite. ... View more

Roadtrip car. ... View more

My Mom's 1949 Nash Landau Convertible.   Maroon (purple), Yellow wheels and no front bumper. Dad found it in a neighbors yard. Splashed out a dollar for it, towed it to the Flying A gas station. They got it running (sort of...) and Mom drove it for about four years. Said it was better than walking. This was actually not true if you were 16 with a brand new drivers license and wanted to be cool.....   On The Green at Pebble Beach though.....!!! ... View more

Me and my pal Steve Johnson, T6 Riverside Int'l Raceway 1981 ... View more

Convertibles - but NOT the same! ... View more

I have red, blue&white. ... View more

At 12 years old I used $15.00 of my paper-route to buy a BMW Isetta 300. Missing a gas cap and with a gas tank half full of brown water that smelled like turpentine. Probably had a lot to do with it not running. A few days later the older brother of the seller turned up and offered to punch my nose if I didn't give him his car back. There was never any paper work so that seemed like a good idea. I was 13 when the Deacon at church offered me a '49 Ford Woody station wagon his former tenants had abandoned in the yard. In pretty decent shape but the transmission and clutch were on the passenger floor. Dad towed it home with Mom driving. Got a $35 ticket for towing a $25 car without a safety chain..... For three years I worked on my dream car. Got it back together properly, running well, refinished the all wood, did the upholstery, interior, everything. Got my license on my 16th birthday - and wrecked it two weeks later in a routine traffic accident with serious consequences. I would like to have that one back.....     ... View more

I have a bit of a weakness for British cars I guess. Here are a couple we raced in Cal Club. The MGB with the Healey 100. ... View more

My '56 Austin Healey 100. BN2, I am the second owner from new. mostly original, not restored just fixed up a bit to make a really nice driver. ... View more

Peter Egan. Superb writer and a good human. If he wrote the contents tab on a box of Cheerios I would read it! ... View more