Back in the ‘80s I had a chrome yellow VW Baja Bug. For those not familar, it’s a VW Beetle with a bobbed front and rear, exposed engine in the back and wide fiberglass fenders with fat tires. To top it off, it had a “stinger” exhaust, which is an unmuffled megaphone exhaust. The hot cam made the exhaust really…

> Not to mention the frame ripping off completely pulling a F150 off a hill.

My father had a lot of cars, but I remember three of them the most.

If you want a really quick wagon, check out Steve Morris’ BoostMaster wagon. Low to mid 6 second 1/4 mile times. Streetable, but barely. Steve Morris is an engine builder, he builds racing engines of his own design (based on BBC and LS, but not sharing parts) from billet aluminum.

I used to have a ‘69 VW van. It was slow stock, I built up the engine somewhat with ported heads, raised compression, cam, Holley 2 barrel carb, and a header. It was still slow by most standards, but it would top 90mph and hills weren’t as much of a problem as when it was stock. One day I was involved in a 15 or so…

My first bike was a Suzuki GT550 2 stroke triple. Definitely a lot of power for the crude suspension and brakes. I lived though!

About 10 years ago I had a used ‘99 S10. The ABS never worked at all, ever. There was no check system light on the dashboard, and two different shops gave up on fixing it, saying that the best they sould do was guessing on very expensive parts that may or may not have fixed it. The truck was fine except for that.

I worked at GM during the entire time this car was made. Toward the end, they deluged us with marketing, trying to get emloyees to buy Reattas. Sales must have been that bad. I wasn’t interested then, and I’m not now.

My mother always said that when she drove through Kansas, her recuring thought was to bring back above-ground nuclear testing.

It didn’t have to be this way for GM. I worked there (this lot is about a block from where I’m sitting now) and we made much of GM’s chip and module needs. If they had invested in us (Delco Electronics) instead of selling us off in an IPO to “Concentrate on their core competencies,” they’d be sitting pretty with all…

That lot is about a block from my house. I used to work there. Until about 1999 or so we made many of the chips and modules (think black boxes under the hood and dash) used by GM. The 2017 date is years after we stopped supplying microprocessors. Then they spun us off as a separate company (we used to be Delco…

I used to do that, then one day the rubber was stuck to the ice more than it was to the blade and tore when I tried to break it loose. Warming the car up until it melts works pretty well until you have an ice storm that leave nearly an inch of ice on the car. I’ve started lifting the wipers up before ice/snow myself…