Car and Driver's 60th Anniversary: Our 21st Century (So Far) - Car and Driver (blog)
Here's what I remember from just one decade, the aughts:. I was still apologizing for having hired a soon-to-be convicted murderer to photograph an Infiniti J30. I drove a Benz ML500 up the Alaska Highway alone, spending one night sleeping in the back seat, near where I'd photographed two wolves. I spent a day listening to car stereos with J. Geils. and an afternoon driving Tim Allen's Cadillac DeVille DTSi. I spent two days on a nuclear ballistic-missile submarine and learned to launch trash. I performed one lap of Newfoundland in a Toyota 4Runner , one lap of Iceland in a Land Cruiser , and one lap of New Zealand in a 1959 two-stroke Saab. In Kosovo I rode on daily gun patrols in an up-armored Humvee, then was trapped there incommunicado for 10 days because of 9/11, missing 2002's 10Best competition completely. Not one single person noticed. Using an Oshkosh Striker 3000 fire truck, I filled a burning airplane full of foam. I urged my dad to enter his '62 Eldorado Biarritz in the Cadillac-LaSalle Club's biggest-ever show, where he suffered a nervous breakdown. From a feature I penned, I was commissioned to write a book called God Wants You to Roll about two boys who sold $21 million of nonexistent cars. Source: www.caranddriver.com
