Some years ago, both my daughter Alexandra and I had motorcycles. On trails, she rode a Yamaha TT-R125L. For the street, she had a Kawasaki Ninja 250. My choices were a Honda CRF230 for the dirt and a Suzuki SV650 for the highway. We had some good father-daughter adventures. But […]
Blogs
SCM Buy Sell Hold Spotlight with Artist Tim Layzell
SCM Spotlight talks with automotive artist Tim Layzell live from the Goodwood Revival.
Keith’s Blog: Are you a Dealer or a Collector?
If your inbox is anything like mine, it is overflowing with “Hot Tips on Cars to Collect” or “Which SUVs to buy now before their prices take off.” Let’s make one thing clear. If your primary reason to be in the collector car hobby is to make money buying and […]
SCM Spotlight talks with 40 Under 40 Honoree Orrie Simko
SCM Spotlight talks with Orrie Simko from Simko Motorcars, a dealer in prewar classics and important racing and one of the newest members of the SCM 40 Under 40 fraternity.
Keith’s Blog: SCM’s “Other” AMG
My 16-year-old daughter started to drive this summer. This means borrowing the family car. So, I started finding myself car-less more often. I took this as a good reason to embark on another used-car buying odyssey. Odysseus was gone for 20 years, but I took just three days. I wound […]
SCM Buy Sell Hold Spotlight with 40 Under 40 Honoree Tabetha Hammer
SCM Spotlight talks with Tabetha Hammer, President and CEO of America’s Automotive Trust
Keith’s Blog: A Busy Fall
There once was a time when the automotive calendar went quiet after Monterey Car Week. Not so any longer. In the months of August, September and October, we now have several top-flight but very different events to look forward to and attend. I’ve recently returned from my second time at […]
Keith’s Blog: Bringing the Elise Back to Life
The SCM 2006 Lotus Elise had not seen much action recently. It had been moved about in the storage garage to make more room for other cars and driven short distances, but it had been a few years since it had been truly exercised. The letter from the State of […]
Keith’s Blog: Trolls are Trolls, Online or Off
Part of the chatter that surrounds online auctions is the ability of non-certified viewers (“trolls”) to make authoritative comments. I was selling a Mercedes 220 Ponton online one time, and bidding was going along nicely. Suddenly a troll opined, “Do you know the heater boxes on those are lined with […]
Keith’s Blog: Waking Up the Silver Arrow
I hadn’t driven our 2004 Mercedes SL 55 AMG since last June. Saturday was a clear, sunny, 70-degree day in the Columbia Gorge. I decided to take the SL out. I pressed the key fob remote with anticipation and nothing happened. I looked at the fob and a little red […]