Vile Gossip: The Chrome Cobra Leaves This Mortal Coil

Chuck Jordan was my very first friend in the car business. We came together unexpectedly in the private, musty quarters of the National Automotive History Collection on the second floor of the Detroit Public Library. It was the fall of 1980, and I had been an automotive journalist for exactly one month. I was researching "The History of Fuel Economy" [Car and Driver, February 1981] for my new career, dressed in my ubiquitous bib overalls. Who knows why the slender, elegant guy in the shiny silver suit and thinning white hair was up there at 7 p.m. on a weeknight. After a few sidelong glances, he came over and asked who I was. "I work for Car and Driver

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