- Website
- http://betterbeaters.blogspot.com/
- Description
- Lifetime SF Bay Area resident. Been messing around with bikes and cars for 45 years. Still doing it and having fun. I like to find the affordable but interesting cars to have fun with. I prefer to drive not idolize my cars. I started a blog a couple of years ago. I can say that I'm learning more and my writing and posting skills are improving .
![I got an itch to get back in the Riviera game and found one that was in better shape than my previous ’66. Maybe I should have invested in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1966-buick-riviera-hardtop-1.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My Hobby Car of a Lifetime #9: 1966 Buick Riviera Redux – A Crisis Of Faith!")
![This is a vehicle that has held quite a strong hold on my imagination. My initial exposure to this car occurred in 1966, when I was in sixth grade. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SCAN0638-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Hobby Car of A Lifetime #7 – ’56 Cadillac Sedan De Ville – How To Train Your Dragon")
![I had once told my son that I would never own a small car. But as a young child, my son had seen an early Datsun Z car and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DSC05894.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Hobby Car Of A Lifetime #6 – 1977 Datsun 280X 2+2 – Z for Two")
![I’d always assumed that someday, I would build a hot rod. I’d been reading Hot Rod magazine since I was in high school. Not to mention Street Rodder, Rod […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SCAN0616-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Hobby Car Of A Lifetime # 5 — 1922 Dodge Hot Rod – When Hot Turns Tepid")
![(Last week, in Part 1, the author told of his purchase of a ’66 Riviera and its clackety engine that would eventually need more work than expected. We tune […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AAAA0012.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Hobby Car #4 — ’66 Buick Riviera Part Two — Clackety Clack, Don’t Talk Back!")
![This car was my Anti Yuppie statement. I was living in the heart of Silicon Valley surrounded by Yuppies. These were real Yuppies who were involved in the electronics and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SCAN0628.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Hobby Car of a Lifetime #3 — 1971 Buick Riviera — My Anti Yuppie Statement.")
![The best Harley that wasn’t, and the beginning of the end. After I sold my long term Harley XLCR, I was without a bike of any kind for several […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/s-l1600-5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Cycle Of A Lifetime Part Eight — Honda Shadow 1100 — The Beginning Of The End")
![The realization of a dream can cut two ways, and it usually does! I had yearned to have a Harley-Davidson Big Twin since I started riding motorcycles in high […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SCAN0578.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Cycles Of A Lifetime Part Seven — ’81 Harley-Davidson FLHS — A Dream Realized!")
![In the previous installment, I had done all these modifications on my ’77 XLCR to make the bike perfect for my third epic ride. A month long trip around the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SCAN0566.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Cycles Of A Lifetime — ’77 Harley-Davidson XLCR Part 2 — More Apologies to Willie G.")
![There is an old saying, “You can always tell a Harley rider, but you can’t tell them much!” I had wanted to make the move up to Harley-Davidson for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SCAN0573.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Cycles Of A Lifetime — A Harley-Davidson… at Last!")
![After the debacle of the re-assembled Honda 750 engine and pieced-together chassis and running gear, I decided to get another 750. But this time it would be a factory […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/red-Honda-750-1976.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL – Cycles Of A Lifetime: 1974 Honda CB750 — Freedom Comes In Four Cylinders")
