Let’s Talk About Cars
Zoom Video Conference | Registration opens 1/27/2025 9:00 AM
Do you enjoy talking about cars? Then this course is for you! We’re open to all kinds of “car talk” – e.g., how to buy a car, the benefits of hybrid vs. electric vehicles, the vehicles of the 1930’s AKA “Rolling Sculpture,” favorite cars of the 1950’s with their “tail fins,” “muscle cars” – and many more depending on class members’ interests. The coordinators will provide sample topics and ask participants to choose one of those topics or choose their own – for example, you might talk about your favorite iconic car or a car that you owned.
Format: Each week a group member will choose a topic. After briefly presenting it, they will pose questions and lead a discussion. The coordinators will act as moderators to ensure that all viewpoints are heard. We’ll welcome PowerPoint presentations, photos, articles from automotive magazines (Car & Driver, Motor Trend, Consumer Reports), and your very own car memoirs.
Resources/Expenses: Participants will need access to the Internet to share articles drawn from newspapers, journals, magazines, and/or news releases with the group by email. No expenses are anticipated.
Chuck Nickles
Chuck Nickles is a retired UMass Dartmouth physics lecturer. Before that he worked in industry on automated precision measurement systems and for an electric utility as a rate analyst and energy conservation specialist. An MGB enthusiast for many years, he’s worked on just about every part of the MG – brakes, clutch, carburetors, wiring, and body. His biggest challenge was breaking down the engine, boring the cylinders, then reassembling and driving it off!
Joseph Petteruti, Jr.
Joe Petteruti has been a member of LLC for over twelve years. He started writing memoirs about his family members after he took a memoir writing class at LLC. His family was in the car business in Providence from 1924 to 1986.