It was a dream role, the actor said, and as a self-confessed "gearhead" he kept the character's signature sports car from the film.
Keys: Benjamin Franklin He's totally the gearhead of this band and he basically invented the glass harmonica so I think he could handle this.
Only a hard-core gearhead would know that their main implement, during the recording of "Thriller," at Westlake Studios, in 1982, was a Harrison 4032, a solid-state recording console.
As a teen-ager in the nineteen-seventies, Kuiken was a self-described gearhead and a science-fiction fan who watched "The Six Million Dollar Man" on TV.
His book is called "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work" (Penguin; $25.95), and it's intended as a challenge, a declaration of gearhead pride in an ever more gearless world.
Born in Detroit in the seventies, Clemens grew up in a white enclave, and his memoir lovingly depicts his soft-spoken, gearhead father, who could shift from first to fifth without ever engaging the clutch, and his stalwart mother, who cleaned houses to pay for a private education that would keep her son out of inner-city schools.
He studied aeronautics and astronautics, not because he had any particular interest in flight but because it struck him as the closest thing academia had to offer a gearhead.
He is a self-professed "map nut," but really more of a gearhead.
"Eighty percent of the allure of doing the movie was the possibility of meeting them," Mr. Wyle said, adding, "I'm no gearhead".
"I'm a gearhead," he said to open the meeting.
