MAX Update No. 98: This Year's Top Story

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This just in: Happy New Year!

No, that’s not our top story. If you’ve wondered why I’ve been so stingy with the MAX Updates of late, it’s because we’d planned on telling the entire story in 100 postings, and I wanted #100 to coincide with the publication of the final MAX story in MOTHER EARTH NEWS, which is scheduled for the April/May 2013 issue. Now, I’m not promising that issue will be “The Thrilling Conclusion To The MAX Saga” (for one thing, schedules can drift in the wacky world of magazine publishing, and for another, MAX might win another cool competition like Escape From Berkeley, which would call for another entry in the magazine’s Green Gazette pages).

Anyway, my point is (yes, I’ve got one, thanks for your patience) that the editors and I have decided the 100 post line-in-the-sand was dumb, and I should continue writing the MAX Updates blog until I run out of things to say. I think a post every two weeks would be good, and my adult supervision at MOTHER EARTH NEWS asked, “Why don’t you make that your New Year’s Resolution?” so we’re going to give it a shot.

And that’s not our top story, either. I’m much more literal than that. 2012 is the year that MAX got a convertible top, and here’s the story:

MAX is huge fun as a roadster, and I’ve been driving MAX topless (no jokes, please) for years, minus a brief stint in the winter of ’08 when I put a fabric top on the old MAX body. That stint was not an unqualified success. First of all, though it looked like a convertible top, it took about 20 minutes to put it up or down, and MAX didn’t have doors at that time. Getting into MAX involved climbing through the window opening, like a NASCAR racer or a cat burglar. Problem was, when I was dressed for winter…

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