Remember family vacation road trips? Exciting as the tourist destinations looked on paper, getting there was a different story. It could have been many hours, or days, away, at a time when built-in vehicle entertainment systems were as futuristic as the Jetsons’ gravity-defying bubbletop “cars.” Playing full-size board games like Monopoly in a moving car wasn’t exactly a practical prospect. Travel games were few, meaning creativity was a necessity. Just ask Newton, Massachusetts, resident Paul Dutton.
“It started when I was a kid in the late Sixties. Growing up in Boston—about five miles from Fenway Park—I became aware of the different cars around me. One neighbor had a beautiful Edsel station wagon. Down the road was a Packard. But what stood out in my mind were the few Studebaker taxis driving around. I’ve always liked the underdog, and even then, I
