Now let’s hear your thoughts on this bad boy.

I went to see this extremely clean E28 today. The body is straight, the paint is great, the interior is in phenomenal shape, it’s pretty much the most promising E28 I’ve ever seen. 1988 535i, 5 speed. Lachsilber paint, cardinal red leather comfort interior. The only thing wrong with it...is some gnarly rust in a weird…

For sale in Victoria, for $4500. It was on craigslist for a month or two, up to about a month ago. Now I guess he’s trying his luck with facebook. It looks really good, but evidently it’s not a $4500 car. I’ll be in Victoria this weekend, so I don’t think I can resist going to look at it.

A friend recently bought a 2005 Subaru Outback 3.0R. It’s faster than my Legacy 2.5i, the more modern 5 speed auto shifts much, much better than my old 4 speed, it sounds better, is more comfortable, rides nicer, and gets the same fuel economy. One day my car is going to need the head gaskets replaced, so the engine…

Yesterday my coworker bought a 2009 Mustang GT, with a 5 speed. Black, with the same hood scoop and little spoiler as that one, but different wheels. She got me to take it for a drive today, and while I don’t want a Mustang now, I definitely want something with a V8, preferably with a manual. I mean I already knew I…

An E46 sedan, with a manual transmission, and the Sport package. Cloth sport seats! I’ve never seen those other than the odd JDM E46 that shows up for sale, and those are usually 4 cylinder cars.

Should I get the 88 or the 84?

I haven’t loved all the new Vampire Weekend songs coming out, but this is just excellent.

II don’t imagine I’ll actually buy this, but I quite like it.

I’ve been looking for a dwell meter, but no one seems to make a standalone dwell meter anymore. There are multimeters with dwell metering ability, but I already have a multimeter, and didn’t want to buy another one just for the dwell metering. So I found this thing at work, got 6! C cell batteries for it, and I’ll…

Thank you guys for all your help and suggestions. With starting fluid and turning the distributor, I got her running again. Haven’t attempted to time or tune properly yet, but holy shit it runs. I honestly didn’t think it was gonna start.

I’m at the point where I’m pretty much out of ideas. I replaced the condenser and the points today, and the spark looks no stronger than before. So either that’s as strong as the spark gets, or maybe the starter is drawing so much power that there isn’t much left for sparking? It cranks fairly unevenly, and slower…

Repost for the evening crowd. I’m gonna wind up spending way too much money on more of this film. This shit is magic, I haven’t touched most of these photos, and the few I have are very minor tweaks. Most of these were taken in full sun, but there’s some challenging contrast, and the last couple were taken on an…

As you can see, traffic was backed up by morons where I wanted to be, so I decided to turn left instead after a bit of waiting. It’s a good thing I waited, because if I turned sooner I might’ve been hit by this idiot in an Altima flying through the very stale red light.

Spoiler alert: it still doesn’t run

I replaced the fuel pump, the old one was full of rusty particles. The new one just barely didn’t fit through the spaces between the pump and the block, so I had to widen the spacer with a file.

I’ve had a wrench thrown in my plans of resurrecting the Volvo, in the form of my mechanic having part of his shop catch fire. The unit beside him burned completely, and the fire came through his wall, burning down most of the wall and a lot of the ceiling. Tons of smoke and water damage, lots of equipment that needs…

For the Oppo Spring Cruise of the Coast Mountain Circle Route.

I had no idea there were any functioning steam shovels in BC, this is cool as hell.