As a person raised in the country within a couple hours’ drive of Carstairs, I hazard a guess that this lady is a rancher and pulls a forty-foot enclosed horse trailer on the regular. It’s a commcercial vehicle and she’s more than likely using it for commercial ends. Chill.

I see them around my cruiser-obsessed city pretty often, but not nearly so often as Street Glides or regular Gold Wings.

Senna.

I’m hoping to finish up the complete rewire on my project bike. This is a slightly older photo because I’m really bad at taking in-progress shots.

I pronounce it “turbo”.

The car in question wasn’t wildly unreasonable in a general sense: it was a 1992 Volkswagen Jetta. This one specifically, however, was dropped on cut springs, wearing three oversized alloys and one stock steelie, had an interior that smelled distinctly of coolant, and was a five-speed. I did not know how to drive a…

“Late 80s Mercedes” has a nice bounce to it.

God help me, I love it.

It’s easy to assume that when you spend a lot of time with gearheads but a Flavus correctly points out, it’s a glitzy, self-evidently luxury car, but someone not invested in knowing things about cars wouldn’t see it as much more than that. The Conti’s certainly appeared in enough rap videos to gain a profile amongst…

You’ve clearly never met my mom.

Non-gearheads will see it and say “Is that a Rolls-Royce?”

“Its lines were dictated by artistic principles that have produced some of the most desirable art works on the planet.”

Time to bare my automotive shame: I once paid $175 to a shop to install a battery (including the battery, but nonetheless). I got into cars essentially as a result of not wanting to be taken advantage of like that again.

The GLI trim is nice in the MkII, my buddy has a coupe version. If it weren’t $3000 I’d take this car, swap in a 2.8L VR6, and drop the diesel in a Samurai.

Just sayin’.

Compared to any Nissan other than the GT-R, maybe. Godzilla’s maintenance schedule is as monstrous as the rest of it.

Are you in Edmonton, by chance? I recognize that MC-12.

Here’s what I’ve got:

Maybe they’re saying they’ll wait for the kid to decide that.

I live in Alberta, which is the surprise late-season second (or third, or fourth) winter capital of the world. Long after you’d expect spring to have settled in and gotten to melting the snow away, we’ll get hit with another round of freezing temperatures and icy roads. This happens as late as the last week of May,…