[Al Skierkiewicz]

I owned an RX-4 a long time ago. Once you became accustomed to dealing with no low end torque, it was one fun car to drive. In the pre 55mph days, that car hit 70 at 4000 RPM. With a ten mph increase for every 500 rpm and a 7000 redline, you can get an idea of why RX-4 owners were pretty happy. It had a great suspension that made me take it off the highway often. The summer after I bought it, I was working nights on transmitter proofs. My wife would talk me into driving her downtown to work and then I would get out onto LSD (Lake Shore Drive) headed north just like the song. When LSD ends it turns into Sheridan Road and I would take that all the way up into Highland Park, riding through Evanston and the Northwestern Campus. Sheridan is a tree lined, curvy road with lot's of turns, stone bridges and old mansions as it passes through the affluent neighborhoods north of Evanston.