TWAS THE NIGHT

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In celebration of the bicentennial of the Christmas season’s most well-known and oft-recited poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (also commonly referred to as “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas”), McColl provides a collection of illustrations, snippets of literature, and historical tidbits related to Clement Clark Moore’s renowned rhyme. The author’s illuminating peek into the formulation and reception of the poem is well organized, with lovely, colorful images from various sources peppering the pages of text. Readers are given not … Read the rest

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Inside the ’69s with a look at the hairy Corvettes from the muscle era.

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Inside the ’69s with a look at the hairy Corvettes from the muscle era.

A LeMans Blue ’69 Corvette L88 coupe at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nats.

After a year’s absence in 1968, the Corvette’s Sting Ray model name returned in 1969. The icon for the model was still that of a delta-shaped sea creature, but it was now spelled as one word. That explains why “Stingray” badges re-appeared on the front fenders, above the Corvette’s four slanting air … Read the rest

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Old Cars Reader Wheels: 1965 Plymouth Barracuda

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Old Cars spotlights a reader’s 1965 Plymouth Barracuda.

Bruce Backert has been lucky enough to own this classic MoPar twice. 

Here is the story of this impressive Plymouth….

“I bought this car after high school graduation, 1968. It was a HiPo 273 / 4-speed car. I I built it over the next year and made numerous changes. The next year I went into the Army and hung onto it. After the Army, I got interested in Harleys and sold the

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BISHOP’S ENDGAME

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It’s 2001, a decade after the events of Muir’s Gambit (2022). The CIA takes over the investigation of the murder of a Princeton University professor. The late Nathan Muir was once an agency recruiter, and now all of his agent networks are inexplicably gone—save for one agent. This mysterious man will only talk to CIA officer Tom Bishop, who’s in Malaysia, but the agency suspects that Bishop may actually be Muir’s killer. As Bishop hops off the grid … Read the rest

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