I have the bad habit of parking standard vehicles in neutral, and not using the clutch when I start them. So yesterday I decided to start the truck, since I was thinking of switching my plates to it for a month or two. Apparently I parked in gear, which I never do, and my handbrake is very strong. The truck lurched…

Repost for the daytime crowd. I wasn’t that happy with most of what I took with my Nikon, so I haven’t posted any of that yet. Now that I finally have most of my film photos sorted out, here’s the first batch of them. These are all on Ektar 100, taken with the Minolta XE-7 with the 35-70mm. There’s still a roll of…

This is a heavy car, with awd, that only makes power under boost. That’s not a brilliant recipe for fuel economy. In the city, it uses 14-15L/100km. That’s 16-17mpg for most of you. I was expecting it to use about 10L/100km on the highway, especially with how intense the mountain roads are. Over the whole 4700km or so…

I’m gonna have a ton of photos to post, so get ready for Saskatchewan/Alberta/BC photos in the next week or two as I get film developed. I’ll post what I took with the Nikon sooner, maybe later today.

Both 2006, but different sizes and price brackets.

4 days, and then it’s the first real road trip I’ve done since 2014. Also the first summer vacation I’ve had more than 4 days since 2014. We’ll be spending lots of time in the national parks in the Rockies, a day in the Kootenays, and several days in the middle of nowhere Saskatchewan.

Yesterday I wound up on the highway for the first time since I bought the V70, and it was wonderful. I’m now completely fine with how much of a boat it is, because that lets it soak up everything on the highway, and just be a lovely, smooth, mile-devouring couch. I think the only car I’ve had that could hold a candle…

A Mamiya RB67. I wasn’t planning on getting a medium format camera until I got a nice scanner, but this was too cheap to pass up. It’s costmetically rough, and the shutter in the lens is stuck, hence the cheapness. Everything else works, and these lenses are cheap. So I don’t know when I’ll use it, but I’m looking…

I didn’t need to use them, but I was surprised to find that this thing has cargo tie-down loops. 

It could use front control arm bushings and rear sway bar links in the next 6 months or so, and I “would notice new shocks, but don’t need them yet”. Tires soon, but I knew that. There’s a saved code about incorrect hydraulic pressure in the rear diff, but he doesn’t think it’s anything because it’s not giving DSC or…

Another 2.5T AWD, but pre-facelift, in a better colour, bigger wheels, and with a spoiler.

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…