Nice Napa heroes bucket. A $5 donation to a worthwhile charity saved me $30 on a new Mini caliper.

I bought a 2006 Mini R50 (non turbo) in December of 2005. It now has 133,000 miles. It had an electrical gremlin in the first week. (Loose wire the the fuse block) I had one shop screw up the oil change (damn gasket) that left me with a pool of oil on the garage floor. A flush and fill of the coolant caused an…

I was 16 and had just met the crazy hot daughter of a woman I worked with at the drugstore. My friend took me out to her house after my shift and we thought it would be fun to drive over to a burger joint and hang out. The girl and I drove in her Chevette, 2 door auto. Slow. Slooooooooooooooow. My friend in his…

2000 rides for Uber and Lyft. Here’s what I learned:

I worked at a custom audio shop, met some cool sports guys. Met some total ashholes. A lot of athletes think they will get a discount after the work has been done. Why I have no idea. Especially problematic if there are multiple friends of the athlete around. No discount+embarrassment+huge ego = cops getting called.

Yes, he’s truly an ashhole. Ashhole. Why won’t this thing let me call him an ashhole? You know I meant ashhole, right?

Easiest NP in memory.

There is absolutely no way anyone should buy that turd. Trim pieces missing and a motor replaced? When cop cars regularly transition to cab duty and rack up a few hundred thousand more miles, exactly what happened there?

I purchased a Pacific Blue 96 for $12190 in June of 1996. I knew it was safe, reliable and economical.