I kind of grew up in the car business. My father managed stores for Western Auto and Goodyear and one of my first jobs was putting studs into snow tires. Many a Saturday my brothers and I were rousted out of bed to go to the store and roll tires off a truck, across a parking lot and into a rack, organized by numbers and letters in combinations like G 78 14R. I've always liked cars and before the crash of 2008 I wrote columns for Auto Exec a magazine that's now out of busines