The car magazine journalist who changed my life

P.J. O'Rourke remembered

While everyone else is talking about how they discovered P.J. O’Rourke in his old Harvard Lampoon days, through his political and travel pieces in Rolling Stone or via his books, I first came across his writing in Automobile magazine.

O’Rourke had a long history of writing in Car and Driver and then Automobile (which was founded by former C/D editor Davi…