I’m not usually one who wants to spend crazy money maintaining my cars. I have a couple nice rides, but they’re older, and I don’t generally like spending more than twenty percent of the vehicle’s value on a repair/rebuild.

That said, if I’d had a component option for my Jaguar timing chain tensioners that would take…

Honestly Blaze is pretty decent. I was impressed today: they had a lunch rush going even before my party of ten came in, and they managed to pipeline our orders through in 10-15 minutes from first order to last off.

And it was pretty good.

I’m not close enough (nor frequent enough with delivery pizza) to try the new…

Interestingly, there are types of structures where point weight does matter. A key example: sprung wood dance floors, which may bottom out or be damaged between 4-800 pounds within a given area.

Sweet. Even better than my time with a Charger in Yosemite. I drive a sweet convertible at home but wince at the price to get something similar on the road.

Interesting. Alamo in Cali has been pretty good to me—including once bumping me a couple classes for a reasonable upgrade price then deciding at the gate to drop the surcharge—stock problems making it a freebie I guess. Late night at a small airport that time too...

I’m actually really sorry for Toyota mostly, they almost beat Audi this year and they would have been on top of the world. Now, if they beat everyone else next year, there’ll still be some glory stolen by Audi leaving unbeaten.

I was a bit worried about the trans in my Jaguar XK8 (not quite vintage, but headed that direction) today on a mountain road 200+ miles from home. Very glad to have a AAA card in my wallet, plus that charged cell phone. I’ll do most of the work myself but a trans might need the pros’ involvement. Thankfully it behaved…

And you can invest some serious sweat to avoid overuse of the first ingredient...

Not one but TWO quarries within the last 3 miles of my commute to work—to a software company, no less. And while one is sort-of avoidable, the one in the last mile isn’t...not unless I go find a dirt road detour.

20-22? That’s what I get when I drive my XK8 like a grandmother and average all highway speeds. (not my grandmother, she has a private warp drive, I think). 16-18 if I’m driving reasonably spiritedly and it’s not all wide open roads.

He’s a member of the greatest generation. He flew missions over Germany and made it back. He probably drives better than you do. </tongue-in-cheek>

Jokes aside, I’ve known some older folks (70s, 80s, etc) who were well capable of driving, independence, & taking care of themselves. My great-grandfather could do 7-8…

This beauty. A ‘97 Jaguar XK8 convertible with 100,000 miles when I bought it and nearly everything (tenuously) functional, somehow. As old, used Jaguars go, it was a pretty sane purchase (affordable, but well-cared-for, decent history, previously owned by a fellow gearhead), but that’s a low bar. As buying cars in…

My rejoinder to the friend who gave me grief over buying a ‘97 Jag the other day was that a couple years ago I nearly bought a non-running Triumph Spitfire. So fragile, so unreliable, but so lovely...

I’ve lived in cities abroad and in the rural American South and I can’t imagine having a car that I actually cared about cosmetically in NYC or Shanghai. Most cities in the South, no big deal. But I don’t know how someone like CCC in New York keep their collection so fine.

If it’s 1st-gen colored bulbs, they have some changes in the 2nd gen that improve some parts of the spectrum, also brightness as I recall. Haven’t actually bought any yet myself.

If it’s 1st-gen colored bulbs, they have some changes in the 2nd gen that improve some parts of the spectrum, also…

This was Sunday, right? I’m approximately 98% sure I saw you on 2nd St NE, maybe somewhere around Massachusetts Avenue or Constitution Avenue? I was crossing a street, and actually paused in the crosswalk to try to make out the model plate as a grey-silver Aston crept past.

Some birds go out of their way to find a higher-quality place to do their business. Like going for that nicer looking gas station/truck stop...it’s understandable.

NP all the way at 5k as I have a soft spot in my heart for Range Rovers of every vintage...but $7900 for a ‘95 is CP, sadly. Considering the rational expected expense to keep it on the road, that’s a lot of green for an (admittedly lovely) BRG money pit.

I should know better, but oh, the feels. I currently drive a semi-neglected, near-bulletproof Ford Taurus with 307,000 miles, and when it dies...I want a Jag.