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From 1971 to 1976 Shep wrote a monthly column for
Car and Driver magazine.
All the columns are in Adobe pdf format.

Articles In addition to his monthly column, Shep also wrote several articles.
June 1970	The Pilgrimage
November 1972	The Excalibur Odyssey - Shep writes about being invited to be Gran Marshal of a Vintage and Antique Car Tour in Florida.
May 1975	Give em' Hell Grandma
December 1976	A Bicentennial Odyssey: In Search of the Jolly Green Giant
Monthly Columns Many thanks to Dave LaCombe who provided all the missing columns and articles to make this collection complete. In checking, Dave says that there was no mentioning of his column either starting or ending it's run in the magazine. It came without fanfare and disappeared just as quietly.
February 1971	Report From Alaska - Part 1
March 1971	Report From Alaska - Part 2, Nom
April 1971	Lahaina Town, Maui, Hawaii
May 1971	Kotzebue, Alaska
June 1971	Colorado Rockies
July 1971	Goodland, Florida
August 1971	Fun City
September 1971	Harold's Super Service
October 1971	Moose Area: Next 18 Miles
November 1971	Drive-In Confessional
December 1971	43 Miles on the Gauge
January 1972	The Ferrari in the Bedroom
February 1972	Little America I Love You
March 1972	An Independent Survey Today Announced...
April 1972	The Morgan Syndrome
May 1972	Lillian
June 1972	Please Reverse this Tape
July 1972	The Gang That Knew How To Shoot Real Good
August 1972	Cagney
September 1972	Madness Afoot
October 1972	No Stops Except for Emergency
November 1972	License Plates
December 1972	Paint Your Car for an Unbelievable $39.95
January 1973	Gasoline Substitutes
February 1973	A Great Looking Morgan
March 1973	Coke Bottles
April 1973	Reginald Potterton of the Lower Ipswitch Healey Silverstone Club
May 1973	Fear of Driving
June 1973	Highway Evangelist
July 1973	India is India
August 1973	Mail Order Catalog
September 1973	Shepherd's Theorum
October 1973	A "Kegger" in North Dakota
November 1973	Shepherd's Museum of Gruesome-nalia
December 1973	Drivers from Neighboring States Are Crazy
January 1974	Great Truths
February	Edwardian Estates
March 1974	Reading the Owner's Manuals
April 1974	Fuel Shortage
May 1974	Fred, The DJ from Cincinnati
June 1974	The Gas Crisis Creates an Intellectual Elite
July 1974	Motor City
August 1974	Seat Belt Buzzers
September 1974	Age of the Product
October 1974	Slobbus Americanus
November 1974	Terraplaning
December 1974	Hollywood - Ravenous Cockroaches
January 1975	The Latest Status Symbol: a faded price sticker
February 1975	When the new-car mystique turns down right mysterious
March 1975	Will History Know Us as the Bullet Hole People?
April 1975	No Column this Month
May 1975	How to raise automotive trivia to an art form.
June 1975	No Column this Month
July 1975	Appealing to the gypsy in all of us.
August 1975	How to avoid turning prematurely orange.
September 1975	The fountain of youth is no place to use a dixie cup.
October 1975	The day Marcel Proust met the Tailgater - and survived.
November 1975	No Column this Month
December 1975	A long way to go - and no TV script to show the way.
January 1976	When Mowing The Lawn Doesn't Move You Anymore
February 1976	No Column this Month
March 1976	Who needs bumper stickers when we have license plates?
April 1976	No Column this Month
May 1976	Detroit meets the Dreaded Potato Beetle.
June 1976	No Column this Month
July 1976	Detroit goes Hollywood.
August 1976	No Column this Month
September 1976	Happy birthday, United States of the Automobile.