La Macchina Molto Bella, 5th and final dump
Finally home from a week of travel and in much faster WiFi so I can finish this series of pictures. Mostly domestic cars in this last collection from the show.
More "Tales from the Dealership"
Many years ago I first started work at a dealer as a college job. In a short time you figured out what mechanics were solid knowledgeable repairmen and who was a goof. Some of the goofy mechanics were downright comical in their mistakes. This is my first recall of an insanely stupid tech.
La Macchina Molto Bella pics part 4
More pics from the September 9th charity car show. I still have plenty to post more this weekend too. Lots of red cars in this post and a few others you might like. Part 5 will get more domestic content. This is mostly Italian and German.
La Macchina Molto Bella pics part 3
More photos from the September 9th charity event. I’m wondering what next year can do to top this one. Its held on the driving range of a small golf course and behind a party center, so there is room for I’d figure 100+ more cars.
La Macchina Molto Bella pics part 2
Here are more shots from September 9th.
Took a little trip today to the Great Serpent Mound
Never knew until today that there are 30 in North America and this is the largest. Also learned we have about 7000 burial mounds in Ohio. I have now seen 9 of those. Four of those we saw while attending the Southern Ohio Forest Rally in Chillicothe. Several were along the roads we traveled to get to the race stages.…
Busy week, last Sunday's Car show, teaser part 1
I made it once again to La Macchina Molto Bella on Sunday the 9th . Due to an insane work week and personal life I haven’t had time to share the event. Was likely the best turnout yet for this relatively unknown gathering. Its an Akron Ohio area fund raiser for The Kidney Foundation that just seems to get better each…
La Macchina Molto Bella car show on Sunday
In the Cuyahoga Valley at 10:30 am. A good charity event for the Kidney Foudation of Summit County with exotic, classic, domestics and import cars from all over. Its worth an hour or more drive if in the region. I missed it last year and really was depressed that I couldn’t make it. The donation amount is flexible and…
RIP Walter Becker of Steely Dan
He will be missed. Much of Steely Dan’s music has been the soundtrack to my life.
RIP Brian Hazell, delivery driver for the old Top Gear
Not sure if many had seen this as it happened earlier this week when much of our news was focused on Texas. Here is the story from the Daily Mail. He drove cars to Clarkson for some years and thus is somewhat responsible for a lot of what we have viewed on TG over the years. He and his wife passed away in a fire. RIP…
What is it with nuts? Both people and hardware types!
I got this call today by someone who needed a 1/2"-13 thread castle nut and insists we probably have it in stock. After a brief explanation that GM vehicles have used mainly metric parts for years I go to our standard parts catalog to only find less coarse thread 1/2"-20 castle nuts listed. I needed a vehicle type to…
Flanged Torque Retaining Nut Missing?
Not sure how but one of the two nuts I installed with a rear sway link on the Audi a month ago decided to take a trip to parts unknown. I noticed when installing it that due to the thicker Whiteline sway bar ends that the thread on the new link bolt barely grabbed the torque retaining end of the nut, sitting flush at…
maybe the lowest turnout Cleveland Cars & Coffee
Went today expecting the normal decent number of cars and few cars showed, wasn’t even raining. It was my first time getting to one since last year. I was in shock the Mustangs, Vipers, GT3s , VWs, Astons, R8 etc were all missing. I was told there were some other happenings all over that many regulars were attending.…
Oppodiet
So I started working out again and I’m trying to drop 10-15 lbs. Have had about 1200 calories so far today. Going out to dinner tonight and found some fair choices where we are going. Boneless medium hot wings with celery are 8 for 420 calories if I skip the blue cheese, a bowl of chicken gumbo soup for 140 calories…
Stupid Drivers Rant
Yesterday on a drive home on an Ohio state route which is two lanes there was a long wait in traffic due to several trains crossing. For some reason it was way longer than normal. There are no other reasonable alternate routes for this section of my daily drive so I’m stuck there. It took forever to get up to a side…
Cue the music
Not “Smoke on the Water”. One of Deep Purples finer blues. Later covered by Metallica.
an Oppo Mellow Morning
No classic rock , alternative or punk for me this morning.
About that San Francisco street that got sold
I see the city was in its rights. The purchasers were within their rights. I think the HOA is at fault, isn’t it their job to watch over things like this? So why are the home owners trying to sue the city and the couple? If I were the couple I’d send a bill for back rent on all those parking spaces since 2015, if…
When Ohio Highway Feels Like NYC or LI
Left Columbus before 5:30 this morning to drive to Tallmadge. Made it to work at 7:53 am. Not sure what was crazier the patch and fill crew with traffic down to 1 lane at 6:30 and watching two 18 wheelers trying to switch to the right lane like it was a chicane at Laguna Seca. That at least was safer than being…
Just for Honeybunchesofgoats
One of my old favorites if I’m not listening to classic rock.