NHRA took a lead from NASCAR and IRL to combine the 2 most non-mixable components of sports and call it an accomplishment: They have receded to slow down racing. Other than the obvious oxymoronic idea of making a sport based entirely on speed go slower, it shows people like me, that even tough guys are […]
Posted on July 12th, 2008 by admin
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speaking of old Volvos: wired has this article on the invention of the 3 point seat belt.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by admin
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My first car was a 1969 Volvo 142. I got it with a bad engine, and about 200k on the clock. I threw in another engine and ran it till it hit 300k. I drove it for 5 years. I unofficially wrecked it twice, drove it at insane speeds on every dirt road between Pioneer […]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by admin
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try to eat this: This is called a Sloppy Poppa. It looked better on the menu, and strangely tasted better the next morning out of the microwave in the hotel room before catching the flight home from New Mexico. For those of you reading with an eyebrow raised, I went to visit the Blocker part […]
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by admin
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got this from “http://www.dvorak.org/blog” can you imagine this in the US?
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
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Why it costs $1600 bucks to fix the A/C on some cars.
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin
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I sucked my new wife Sarah into a ritual I started years ago. One night a week, I set aside for nothing but relaxing. Since most of what’s on TV sucks, I watch a geeky selection from netflix, drink a thick German beer, eat elaborate snacks and smoke a cigar. Since I usually watch star […]
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by admin
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When i was a kid growing up in the desert, my sister adopted a German Shepard looking dog we called Woof. (Its name was Wolf, but it was a dumb dog, so he didn’t mind) As a puppy, it gallantly skittered across the tile floor, sliding sideways like a NOPI drifter around corners, then over […]
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by admin
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Used to be a good thing. I have AAA myself. I consider it a necessity when driving the car i do, even actually used it once when my fuel pump failed on my way to final exams last year. now i wonder. A few weeks ago, a client called and said their car died and […]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by admin
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Today my truck got alot of work done. I got tired of the grinding noise every time i pushed the clutch, so a few weeks ago, i toured the salvage yards for a pedal assembly and anything else useful that would fit. I rebuilt it fashioning new bushings from brass pilot bushings to replace the […]
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by admin
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