I need to preface this by saying: This was back when I was dumb, broke, and driving my Mini, daily, with a much harder suspension setup than I should have been...

I’m suddenly very glad these types of washes don’t exist anywhere near me. Only the bathroom-stall automatic car washes, here (no tracks).

Easily the “Everyday Backpack”. Peak Designs hit it out the park with this one. Versitile. Well made. And properly weather proof (spent 3 weeks walking around Europe in wet weather, and all my camera gear, laptop, battery chargers, notepads, munchies saw no sign of moisture getting in).

Easily the “Everyday Backpack”. Peak Designs hit it out the park with this one. Versitile. Well made. And properly…

The only proper answer.

In case anyone’s interested in Ant Anstead’s announcement:

I’m glad the BMC/Leyland issues never hit me. 17 years of ownership, and my Mini’s reliability is solid as a rock.

The SportKa commercials were down right insane.

From what I witnessed. This was ever the only answer.

Photo compositions look good. But the expired film look doesn’t work for me.

Pansy Ferrari... Cutting back on the yellow to put black sills and black seats.

I may like green cars.

I’m gonna keep saying gearbox, because my car parts suppliers (local and overseas), and my mechanic, all say gearbox. No need to cross the streams if not necessary. (Insert British car maintenance joke here)

I f’ing love straight cut gears. I want to put a straight cut set of gears in my Mini. One of these days... One of these days.

Nice to know BMC, Leyland and Rover kept an ancient art alive... All the way to the year 2000. My Mini has that gasket with trim (used to be chrome, but I’ve swapped it for black). And by god, is it a bitch to get right. Takes two people, minimum, to install straight.

Having a pair of Piloti shoes was great for driving -in my car specifically*-, the rounded extra grip on the heel and the outside right toe, was super helpful. But the shoes were shit, deteriorated after a year of use, were super uncomfortable otherwise...

The steering wheel is tilted forward like a bus steering wheel. I’m sure that was his complaint about the steering wheel angle. A lot of basically-designed small cars have this issue.

The issue would less likely be the overpass hitting you from above, but being those cars driving on the freeway, and not noticing the ground no longer exists in front of you at 65-80mph. Though, new overpasses have new designs (like no longer being directly connected to the sides), so that is less of an issue, but…

Having witnessed all the fallen overpasses from the ‘94 Northridge earthquake, I’d rather be travelling in a tunnel that can be supported in three dimensions than an above ground surface that it only supported from underneath.

Everytime I see a 126 I think of this video:

http://www.miniusa.com