This might be my favourite car that anyone I know has had, including mine. Other than maybe my Volvo, or the Blazer. But this is top 3 at least. I

At my work, we currently have an 06 or 07 GMC Savana 1 ton with a 16' van body. Despite only having 138k kms on it, it’s pretty rough. There isn’t much desire to do any work to it since the plan was always to replace it with a truck with a gate. We’ve starting acquiring a lot more inventory, and I’ve starting driving…

I finally finished this roll and got it developed last week, and haven’t had time to edit the photos until last night. So here they are. Mostly from the Oppo cruise, some from a couple weeks later at a buddy’s garage.

I was originally going to post a photodump of a car show I was at, but kinja is a bag of dicks, so you get some rambling about my new Volvo instead.

Well here it is. 2006 Volvo V70 2.5T AWD. This really isn’t what I thought I was going to buy, but evidently I have.

Better pics to come tomorrow 

I really like it, I want it, but I can’t bring myself to buy it right now. If I had the money, time, and space for another project, I’d do it. But I’m looking for something to fill the role of the Subaru, and I think this thing has been sitting too long, and has some kinks to be worked out. It has a a power draw, that…

I think this might be the nicest car I’ve ever driven. At least the nicest that I can think of. Supremely comfortable, good power, smooth, cool 5 cylinder warble and soft turbo noises in the background. Generally confidence inspiring and premium feeling. I really like it. It’s a bit of a boat, but not in a bad way.…

I’m sure plenty of you have driven larger things, but this is the biggest vehicle I’ve driven so far. It’s entertaining.

I wasn’t able to go see the car last night, but I wasn’t concerned since the ad had been up for at least a couple weeks. Naturally, someone put a deposit on it last night, and bought it tonight. Oh well, time to find something else. There’s another XC70 I may check out, even the same colour, but it has a plain black…

Hopefully it’s as good as it looks. Higher kms than I’d like, but it’s cheap, I love the colour and interior, and it should be solid if it’s been as meticulously maintained as he claims.

Beer and food with CarsofFortLangley and Goggles Pizzano. Not a bad trio of 80s-ness.

We boldly decided to take the Raider, since either my dad or I have been driving it almost every day, and it’s been behaving well.

Because this seems really nice, and like it should be worth more than $1500, even with the fairly high miles.

The Raider made it up to Manning Park, along Highway 3 in southern BC. I was in awful traffic the whole time, and averaged 10mpg. But it hauled up the mountains and ran like a champ the whole time. I’m slightly deaf, but super satisfied with all the work I’ve done on it.

Having my 1997 Blazer convinced me that 90s SUVs are pretty much the most practical vehicles ever made. Simple, reliable, not too big, not too bad on gas, seats 5 in relative comfort, good enough on the highway, and good enough off road. The Blazer wasn’t amazing at anything, but it was good enough at almost…

The cleanest 900 series in the world. I’ve read that the early 2.9s were problematic, but if this one has made it 250k kms, which should mean it’s a good one, I think. If I were to buy a big rwd Volvo, the power of the I6 would be nice, but apparently they also get worse fuel economy that the old redblock 4 cylinders,…

Brb just gonna ask if they want to trade for a 2006 Legacy wagon, even though I’m sure they won’t want to.

I shot most of this roll at 100 iso, because rookie mistake. Luckily, it turns out Portra loves to be overexposed. I’ve adjusted some of them in Lightroom, but overall I’m really happy with how they look, even untouched. I started this roll in Ioco a couple weeks ago, and finished it on the Oppo trip.

I’ll have more photos when I get the film developed, but here’s what I got digitally this weekend. This was an awesome time, it was great to see those I’d met before, and great to meet those I hadn’t. Thanks to COFL for organizing this, I think we all appreciate your commitment to the PNW Oppo community. I hadn’t…