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Social Bimmers
Our neighborhood has turned into a wealth of automotive inspiration. As I've mentioned (and probably will continue to), there are several doors that I've been tempted to knock on because of the mean machines parked in the driveways. One particular BMW E30 that lives on the street in front of one of the first few houses at the entrance to [...]
Riding the Bull; 8 secs in a Saleen S7
Growing up, I spent quite a few Saturday afternoons watching PBR – Professional Bull Riding, not Pabst Blue Ribbon – on television with my grandfather. Pa-pa, as we called him, grew up in a family of sharecroppers in the Deep South before shipping out with the Navy at the end of the second World War, then riding undercover with the Hell’s [...]
License to Thrill
My son is only three and a half and is therefore at least 12 years away from driving a motor vehicle. Given the current rate of technological advancement, we could see self-driving cars, or at least cars that only require a bare minimum of human interaction, by the time he reaches adulthood. For now though, I am steeling myself for [...]
B-B-B-Buffy and the Jets
Sports cars and supercars were a critical theme throughout my formative years. I mentioned in last week’s post that the Bugatti EB110 was the only poster in my room. That’s technically true, at least as far as the four walls were concerned. My mother worked as a freelance interior designer in the early ‘90s before going into real estate, and [...]
Legend
Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated our 10 th anniversary. Because of this considerable milestone, we've spent a fair amount of time recently reminiscing about our relationship and our adventures together. This is also the time of year that we both gear up for back-to-school routines, and our three-and-half-year-old son will be joining the fray with his first trip [...]
Back in Black
The number 13 has been popping up quite a bit lately, and it isn't even time for Halloween. Ive spotted the number on 3 car plates this morning, I unknowingly stopped the microwave 13 seconds early, and I sat down to start writing at 1:13pm (13:13). So obviously I started thinking about the '67 (6+7=13) Impala hardtop on [...]
The Spy Who Jag'd Me
It has been years since I've stopped and thought about the Austin Powers film series, but this past weekend I passed a “Shaguar” in front of Walmart, of all places. There really isn't any car that is less of a Walmart car than the Jaguar E-Type, and this one had the same Union Jack design that Mike Myers' character had custom painted [...]
Why did the Chicken cross the Type 2?
Apparently we are a VW minibus family. I always pictured myself as a four-wheel-drive rock crawler or European race driver, but my sister and my dad think otherwise. Our clan is rather quirky and irreverent, and to this point, they bought my son a kids battery-powered VW Type 2 for Christmas last year and forever cemented his hippie status. Unlike the [...]
Lightning McQueen and the Dream for an IROC-Z T-TOP
My 3-year-old son is a diehard fan of Lightning McQueen from the Disney Pixar film Cars. I probably didn't even need to tell you that. After all, asking if a 3-year-old – or pretty much any kid in general, if we're being perfectly honest – likes Cars is akin to asking if a bear poops in the woods or [...]
Embarrassing Car Stories
We've all done it. Some of us even got away with it. But more often than not, we got busted.I'm talking embarrassing car stories, and do I know some great ones.My mom was 15 when she snuck out and borrowed my grandad's precious 240Z to drive to the grocery store and buy a pack of [...]
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