Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Do you actually enjoy this site?

White, ‘93 Bronco full size 5.0. Yes, the OJ-mobile. Bought it to pull a 5,000 pound sailboat up and down a wet ramp, which it did extremely well, especially with the 4WD low range. I kept it in really nice, original condition and added a nice Gibson exhaust and K&N FIPK. Nevertheless, I could never eek out more than…

Well, I’m sure this guy “trusted” our boy Aaron, who then violated said trust.

Do Camaros not have odometers?

With WiFi (and a decent lunch spot) I can work from most any customer waiting room, but I usually just limit it to an oil change (up to 90 minutes or so).

Problem is, no one wants to hoon your Sienna. Now if you bring in something they’ve rarely / never seen before, that’s something else. What’s sad is that most owners would be honored to let a respected shop owner drive their car with permission.

This could be the beginning of the end for BHR. The enthusiast end of the P-car community is pretty tight. Meanwhile, the status posers will just continue to go to the dealer.

I hope that Aaron Holstrom has $1 million liability on the business. He may need a lot of it before his insurance company drops him. Wonder if there could be criminal charges?

Got to wonder about the relationship between “shop owner” Aaron Holstrom and Bob Hindson. Son in law? Grandson? Regardless, if there was a Bob Hindson, I expect that any man who started a business from scratch would be more careful with customer property than the people who simply inherit stuff.

Well, if you want to sell as many hundred cars as Mitsubishi does in the US, crossovers provide the most likely to help you meet your modest goals, and allows you to shrink your model lineup down to, uh, one, I guess?

I’m not entirely surprised by this. Next to PA (Andrettis, sprint cars) The axis from southwest VA to Charlotte NC (NASCAR etc.) is the epicenter of true east coast car culture. Lots of handy, self-reliant guys from back in the farming era, with welders in the garage. Yes, here in CA we have car culture, but it seems…

Some guys are into cars. Jim Moran, the late King of Toyota, was kinda into boats. I think this was his last one, a mere 168 feet:

I’ll have to keep this in mind the next time a Honda dealer looks at me sincerely and says, “Look, man, I’m not making any money on this deal. You gotta help me out.”

As I read this graph, cars were made to be about as safe as they could be in 2011, and through distracted driving and other means, we’re finding better and better ways to defeat the safety measures. :(

And Texas, into the ‘90s.

For $2,000. What is texting, Alex?

There’s always the option of throwing darts blindfolded at, I don’t know, everything out of Detroit (or just Chrysler, if you like) from about ‘74 to ‘84....

It’s an answer to a question no one asked.

Not in ‘Murica it don’t.

True, but they should be faulted if the result sucks.