Oof— we thought about taking our BRZ last time we went to Chicago, but glad we didn’t as we would have left huge chunks of it in the parking garage near the hotel (I was concerned in my car even, wow that was steep…), and any remaining bits in some of the potholes we couldn’t miss (and especially on the stretch of…

Yup— like when I borrow the Mini campaign tag from a while back and say our covered-in-mud cars are loved because “they’ve been motoring.” Sure, clean them up and keep the salt and crap rinsed off in the winter as you don’t want them rusting out, but what point is there in spending the money on a great car if you…

The Mines is my all time favorite GT_ car. I always get really depressed when the races get into the essentially F1-style-only level… and then I just keep doing the older races so I can keep driving my Mines! And I try and think about how I’ll never see, nor especially drive, a real one…

OMG… I’ve never bothered with the dozen or so CSI shows, but after reading that episode synopsis… Wow… (and glad I’ve never wasted my time :P ). And did they say Lil Bow Wow is in that though?? Loved him in Tokyo Drift (still not enough to make me watch a CSI though…)

No kidding… I still have a tiny bit of hope that Honda will eventually come to its senses (like Subaru did after only a couple sad “go for a ride with the radio on” years). Not holding my breath, but I do adore my 1G TSX and wish they’d put out something decent again so I wouldn’t have to keep justifying that my Honda…

A true classic with perfect usage! (fortunately, the other version where they explode wasn’t necessary…)

And here I thought one our cars had some clearance problems— watching them unload and unpack the Apaches was pretty crazy, and very labor intensive. And the guys riding on top even.

woah…

I’ll never suggest I knew much about carbs (except that my dad cursed them constantly— he worked on a lot of cars all the time). But I absolutely blew some friends minds one night. I was home during college and had my grandma’s old car, and the butterfly thing would get stuck closed and the car wouldn’t start. So I’d…

The car I drove in high school had a manual choke. It never got *that* cold there, but it sure made it easier to get the car going when it was chilly.

I remember seeing the TT before it first came out, at a gas station in Gila Bend (outside of Phoenix). I remember calling my husband asking what it was— and describing it as clearly an Audi based on the logo on the grill, but kind of Beetle like, but flatter and more rounded…

Pete Ellis Dodge, Long Beach Freeway, Firestone Exit, Bellflower… (I think it was Bellflower… I wasn’t from LA, but we got KTLA, so I heard that a lot growing up too…)

…I’ve got his jingle in my head now…

Ah— electric and turbo. That makes sense. I was gonna say, damn! Since they tuned my “giant” 2.4L (a K24) about as far as it can go and it only gets about 205.

Luckily we have some friends and co-workers who understand our, uh, issues and are ok with us doing that, and even expect it anymore. :D (both me and my husband are neurotic parkers…)

*has* to be an odd number of spaces away so others can follow the unwritten rule of parking every other space. Leave an even number? They’ll park right next to you every time…

Wait… I completely agree with a BMW driver about something?? ;) And here I thought I was the only one that might look up Google maps to see what the parking situation at a new location might be. :D Luckily (?) both me and my husband are neurotic about parking, so we don’t mock each other…

Even with the “park far away” you also need to consider the idiots who dart across spaces as they can’t be bothered to drive a few extra feet to use the proper lane… At, like, Target, I either park along the edge near the end as there’s a grassy area not likely to be darted across, or the next row over where two…

Yup— just read some of the comments to my husband and he started laughing at this as he fully agrees— his DD is a WRX. He admits it acknowledges aggression :P (and that he’s has been having fun with learning the finesse of our RWD)

That’s what we were saying :D