“But there at throttle’s touch is instant launch, guaranteed to snap tum-tums around spinal columns while causing a very real brain-draining case of the vertigos.” Baskerville, who referred to himself in print as “yer old dad,” had been a noted drag racer in the late 1950s and early ‘60s with a modified pickup-bodied roadster. Fans of the wood-sided station wagons that surfers popularized as “woodies” in the 1960s are “fir heads” in a Baskerville piece.Ī sample from a Baskerville tale when he was the passenger on an early morning run in a souped-up 1970s-era Mustang II that hit a top speed of 140 mph in 10 seconds on a deserted Detroit highway: “He had his own style, and he’d make up words if that’s what he needed to get an idea across,” said former Hot Rod Editor Ro McGonegal, now a writer for the magazine. Not many writers can do that, but he could.” Co-workers at Hot Rod remember Baskerville as the soul of the magazine: a writer whose distinctive voice was rarely tuned by editors. “He’d go from shop to shop talking to guys who build cars and writing about us and our cars, and 99.9% of the time he was 100% right.
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“I don’t think there was a better individual on this earth in the writing business,” said car builder and former racing driver Art Chrisman.
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