I can relate to this. I have a 91 Miata with a turbo kit. Loved it and had a ton of fun in it until I bottomed out, lost all the oil and seized. I got so depressed after this that I searched far and wide to find a proper replacement. I found one in Seattle that ticked every checkbox. OBD1 (smog exempt), every option…

Flyin Miata turbo kit. I’d dreamed of getting one since they were first introduced but I didn’t have the money for it until I took a good job over a decade later. Stock Miatas are fun, but the turbo converts gasoline directly to dopamine. There was never a gap on the highway that wasn’t instantly mine. All of the…

One car, goodbye!

You make a good point and the FAA deserves a black eye for that. Boeing draws a lot of water in DC. Those two pilots don't have any friends. They knew better. The fact that they pushed forward with the stunt after being told not to do it presents a willful disregard for authority.

Simply put, the FAA does not fuck around. Ever. The stick up their ass has a stick up its ass and as a result, everyone everywhere follows the rules. When rules are followed, planes don’t fall out of the sky. The FAA is a large part of the reason why air travel is the safest mode of transportation on this planet.

A & B are sacrifices on the altar of safety. I’m sure there’s a way to engineer this, but it’d be at an extremely high material cost.

Steve, I think I mentioned this in your previous post about your Miata. if you haven’t looked at the Marrad LX2, get in touch with them. The seat pan sits BETWEEN the rails millimeters from the floor. You can remove the cushions so your ass is just millimeters above that. I don’t know if it’ll give you the two inches…

I was a PC user at a time when the iPod was an apple exclusive. I actually spent the money for a FireWire expansion card and I downloaded ephpod so I could add my files. Why would I do this? I was big on audiobooks and I couldn’t squeeze them onto my diamond Rio player. Those cassette adapters were a fantastic…

I bought a hot wheels coupe clip to give my son when he gets his first car. I hope it has more meaning to him than anything that comes with his future cars.

There is something to be said about how a feature as simple as a key fob makes you feel. I understand the affirmation, but if that’s the only thing behind the buyer’s perceived value, then that buyer got sold.

Find your inner Torch, Andy. That’s what we’re here for.

Finding a Miata of this vintage that hasn’t been ridden hard and put away wet is becoming increasingly difficult. The price is a little steep, but not unreasonably so for a clean, rust free special edition car. If I had the space, I would buy it and keep it for weekend drives and eventually sell it because at this…

Man, I feel this. Years ago I bought a set of Corbeau A4 seats to run a setup like this. The seats held me well, but they were awful for everything else. I’m tall and the seat put my head way to close to the roll bar. Your head is still perilously close to your roll bar! That’s fine for when you’re wearing a helmet;…

Airlines are an oligopoly and the United States is a big country. With all of the mergers, route competition has been reduced. Simply put, they don’t care about your comfort because they don’t have to.

You and my father should get together and go bowling.

“Do you know who I am?” is a projection of importance. It worked in this case, but police officers hear that crap all the time.

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You save $1.40 per tank and $12.80 in gas per year in Ohio.

There is a part of me that will happily pay the insurance deductible to replace my car if the thieves who destroyed it are incinerated trying to escape the conflagration. I’ll be even happier if they survive because they’ll have to look at those scars in the mirror every day for the rest of their lives.

It’s been well over a year since the election of 2020 and there are STILL people where I live willing to stand on a corner with their MAGA, FUCK BIDEN and TRUMP WON on flags, smiling and waving at cars.