JaMES GILBERT

Meet Pam Oakes

Has been an ASE-Certified Technician (Automotive Service Excellent), since 1995.
Holds a degree in Electronic Engineering Technology (EETAS)
She has repaired tens of thousands of vehicles ever since.
Fourth generation automotive technician: Her great-grandfather Leonard Smith, grandfather, Ralph Smith and father Jerry Oakes were all automotive technicians. Pam's dad has more than 45years as a tech; worked with Pam from 1996 to 2004.
She started Pam's Motor City Automotive in 1995. Pam was the sole employee - which grew into what it is today a 12-bay shop with 10 employees.
Pam's Motor City Automotive has won numerous awards throughout the years - local, regional, and national.
Estero Island Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), second regent2009-2011
Author of "Car Care for the Clueless: Or How You Can 'Make Money' While Maintaining Your Vehicle", 2011; "Car Care for the Clueless: Successful Used Car Buying 101", 2012
Radio host of "Car Care for the Clueless" on webtalkradio.net and WGRN radio
Co-producer of CAR-ER show, 2011-2012
Hosts a semi-monthly car care clinic for women, since 1996
Former Newspaper reporter and editor

For more information visit http://carcarefortheclueless.com About The Author: Over the course of his career as a historian, he published 11 history texts, one of
which (Perfect Cities) was named a New York Times notable book of the year in 1986. Throughout his
career, he has often succumbed to a love of travel made possible by teaching at the University of Paris
and Warwick University in England, and with Fulbright Awards, at the University of Sydney, the
University of Amsterdam, Erfurt and Tubingen Universities in Germany, and Uppsala University in
Sweden, where he was given an honorary Doctoral Degree. Until 2020, he was the Faculty Fulbright
Adviser at the University of Maryland. Born in Chicago, Gilbert attended Carleton College and then the
University of Wisconsin, earning a doctoral degree in American Intellectual and Cultural History. In
1966, he was hired by the University of Maryland. He was appointed Distinguished University Professor
in 1999. Since retirement, he has written four novels and a book of short stories. His “Christian Singles”
took second place in a 2016  F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest and "Sunrise in the Valley" received
an honorable mention in 2021, F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest. He is also a (very) amateur cellist.
He resides in silver Springs, MD, outside of Washington, D.C. For more information, please consult:
www.JamesGilbertAuthor.com
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