SPEED TC Spotlight: James Clay, ”No, More Mr. Nice Guy!”

My latest feature for SPEEDtv.com on SPEED Touring Car racer and owner of BimmerWorld, James Clay.

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/scca/30792/

How to Change Your Oil

I’m proud to announce that I had my first contribution to a major book published recently–my chapter “How to Change Your Oil by Memo Gidley, as told to Marshall Pruett” is featured in the book “50 Things Every Guy Should Know How To Do : Celebrity and Expert Advice on Living Large ” as one of the 50 chapters of advice offered.

The book, published in May, has received great reviews and is doing rather well (look ma, my book’s in the top fifty thousand at Amazon! #49,976 to be precise…) and features the 50 things every “Dad and Grad” needs to know—my portion was actually ghost written by me for my pal, Indycar and Prototype stud, Memo Gidley. He’s told some great stories over the years on his countless cross-country treks to races in his beater Toyota pickup, so I just morphed some of those tales into Memo’s voice for the book.

If you get a chance, it’s a fairly fun read, can be found in every Barnes and Noble, and has chapters from experts on all kinds of stuff you’d never known you needed to know!

Of all my accomplishments, I must say, being a contributor to a book that also features works by Britney Rears and Carson Kressley is, um, an honor?…least they could have done was add Vanilla Ice to the roster of writing ‘talent’…

Sport Compact Car: Family Airloom

My first feature magazine piece was published in the June 2005 issue of Sport Compact Car. It featured the gorgeous 1967 Datsun Roadster that Alvin Gogineni restored, and swapped powerplants from the OE unit for a newer naturally aspirated Nissan Silvia SR20 unit.

Altogether, the craftsmanship and conversion that went into the Roadster stand as a testament to Alvin’s love for the unique features of this cross-era Datsun.