A lack of shake down runs can lead to your suspension fail. 1 minute and 30 seconds into my first long distance desert race and the top link of the rear 3-link suspension broke off. We later had the serpentine belt break, the clutch packed up with silt and later finished it off by breaking the shift linkage on the…

With a few modifications the Tie Fighter is a great combat ship.

I had a guy from Miami sitting next to my standards seats during the Sounders vs Whitecaps Concacaf match, so the crowd was less then normal. He kept taking pictures talking about how much better the fans were then at Marlins and Dolphins games. Wish he could have been there for the Portland matches.

Geo Metro Convertible.

Except the Geo Trackers were Suzuki Sidekicks. It was actually a soft-roader more then the Wrangler of the same era, the YJ, and made for light duty off-roading and not trail bashing. Not that they don’t work great for that. They didn’t do that bad on the sales front back in the day, 416,816 registered vehicles to the…

I was working at a small computer store and a kid came in to do a file recovery and rebuild of his laptop. When I found the brazzers collection I asked if he wanted it back up as well.

Who can forget the TR7 Rally car?

I raced for a few years with the Zukiworld Challenge, put together by Zukiworld as a way to take some old Tracker and Sidekicks out to do some desert racing.

Having run in some desert races, yes Desert racing does rule! It is rather time consuming though and may not allow for any other hobbies. :D

I ran the Zukiworld Challenge for three years running races in Nevada with Vorra and some short track in Oregon and Washington. Best bang for the buck in racing outside of Hornets but it is a time sink. I highly recommend anyone who is interested in some off-road racing look into them.