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70 Years Young

Happy 70th anniversary! MotorTrend has been a big influence in my life while nurturing my lifelong interest in cars.

A marginal grade school student of English and grammar, my reading and vocabulary were honed instead by consuming issues beginning in 1961 at age 10, when my dad brought home an issue borrowed from a car nut coworker. I subsequently had an incentive to visit

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