The one that started it all - the 1999 Subaru Impreza Brighton wagon.
My first love, my first car.
To end up finding this incredible deal I first sifted through the local classifieds for weeks on end, doing a small bit of research on the cars in the classifieds.
I had it reduced to a Passat VR6 or this beauty right here.…

2015 was epic for cars.
It was a great year... and here’s why.

Alcatel Lucent Car Show of Summer 2015!

Fellow Opponauts, it has been a long 3 months since I last posted on this amazing car blog. I have been soooo busy with life it’s impossible to understand.
Where the hell do I even start?
I am going to finish the series on my B5 Audi for sure, so stay tuned for that.

Let’s catch up a bit on my car situation...
I traded my…

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Day 5 of my adventures... many hundreds of dollars later in parts and maintenance items and absolutely no labour having been performed.

Today I went to the junkyard (Standard Auto Wreckers on Fallowfield), I had gone to scout there earlier this week and scored 2 year old winter tires with excellent tread off of a 1993…

Hey guys! I’ve been gone for a while but here I am back again now...

Hello everyone,

As you may have read my 1987 Peugeot 505 STI V6 was totaled in a rear end crash on Wednesday evening (October 28 2015 at 5:39 PM... yes I remember it all that perfectly). Ever since this happened I’ve been looking for a replacement or what to do at least with the car - I found a friend from Alberta who…

Hello Fellow Opponauts,
I have a large collection of vintage car magazines and I sometimes browse through what I like to call the “Gearhead Archives”. I know there’s quite a few of you with a bigger collection, so why don’t you share it?
I remember once having a goal of archiving all of my magazines page by page onto a…

Hello Fellow Opponauts,
Sad news today. I went to get a quote from Milano’s Autobody, a bodyshop that’s both low-cost and high-quality, in Little Italy. They eye-balled and quoted me at least 700-1000 for PULLING THE BODY STRAIGHT. Then, whatever is needed for paint and prep-work.
Simply - this car has met the end of…

Hello fellow Opponauts,
ZippyArt and I were calmly driving through the rainy evening on a busy avenue in Kanata when suddenly we were rear ended by an idiot in a red 2004 Ford Focus Hatchback. Apparently they locked up their wheels in a panic brake and slid straight into my ass-end.
The poor Peugeot is on life-support…

This is when we took my buddy’s POS Hyundai Accent second-gen to the Calabogie Motorsports racetrack in Calabogie (just outside of Ottawa). This was a charity event where you could do two laps of the famous race track for 5 dollars per occupant. There were a lot of VERY nice cars! This was near the end of June 2014.

Hey guys, just wanted to do a throwback Thursday post to my good old days with the old winter-bitch.
This is a video of me and my buddy Alex Maas. I had a ‘99 Impreza Brighton Wagon with a 5 speed manual and a 50/50 AWD power distribution (godbless Subaru!). I had put in a scooped hood (with removed blocker plates so…

Sadly never mine but will always be missed. A great, powerful, FWD sports coupe. Dragged a 1999 BMW 54oi with the M-Package and smoked it - J35 POWAH!

I knew once I dipped my toes into the water I wanted to go into the deep end. These cars have been in my life since I was young child living in Argentina (hence my attachment to them).
Anyways, this is my second and more thorough look at the car. At first it scared me off because I thought “Oh shit, a barn find. Here…