Richard Burns Carson

Richard was a good friend who shared interests in the Ampico reproducing piano, classic cars, and 78rpm records of 1930´s dance bands. He will be missed.

I remember Richard for the times he and I delivered our Rotary Dictionaries annually to the third grades at Bolinas-Stinson School. Richard always took time to chat with each student and help them find interesting facts and stories in their new books. Richard was a classic car enthusiast and had met my father, Charles Sutherland, another car buff! Small World.

Ricard was a long time friend of mine. We first met in the nineteen sixties. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of classic cars, trains, and ocean liners. He lived the hobby by driving classic cars, riding on trains, riding motor cycles, and making at least one crossing (to my knowledge) in an ocean liner to South Hampton. He did not like flying. He was in favor of surface transport. He said that the journey was important and that one could not get a sence of distance by flying in an...

Miss your smile and profound words of wisdom

The most unforgettable friend I have ever had in my life.

Richard was originally a neighbor but then a dear friend for 55 years. We shared a passion for passenger trains and ocean liners. We could talk for hours on the relative merits of Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, or the Queen Mary or the Leonardo Da Vinci, both of which he sailed on and I never did. Farewell my friend.

Richard was a dear friend and prize-winning fellow author. He had a passion for the beautiful cars of the classic era and wrote about them in an exquisite literary style, his most recent contribution being to the Cavalcade chapter of my biography on famed classic car designer Raymond H. Dietrich. Richard will be missed greatly on the automotive scene, especially by me.