My wife really surprised me with a wonderful gift out of left field. Specifically, a gift certificate to get the headlight lenses on my 2007 Solstice renewed professionally. Of course after 48+ years of marriage, I suppose it’s no surprise that she can read me life a book!

The winter of 1967-1968 was especially brutal in Chicago. I know this as I was stationed there at the induction center with one other Marine. At that time I was the proud owner of a 1962 TR3B which I had bought after returning from Viet Nam. I drove the entire 1967 season with the top down always intending to…

In 1995 my wife and I had just returned to the USA after 18 years in Germany. We were in desperate need of a solid used car so I went to the Chevrolet dealer in Bartlesville, OK and did a walk through the used car lot. About 5 minutes into my search, a chubby cornfed Okie who introduced himself to me with a very…

My tale is similar to yours. I was living in Northern Germany with easy access to the country of Holland. A friend of mine who ran a bar down on the docks that catered to a very eclectic mixture of customers. One of said customers had just gotten back from Holland with a large bag of some green leafy substance. He…

I really, really like this idea. Let’s also add LeMans style starts for the initial race launch. And the driver has to hook him/her self into the vehicle with a specific set of parameters that must be met before the car will start!

I especially like the photo of the word “stainless” with an orange rust spot right on top of the “S”!

Many moons ago when I was working as a Surveyor in the military, as soon as I was promoted to Chief Surveyor I strongly encouraged all of my troops to carry either a good quality Swiss Army knife or a multi-tool. As a result we were very often the go to guys when something needed a quick-fix.

This is a very distasteful subject for me, but when you go for your first face to face with the dealer, set aside your desire to be an outspoken advocate of some cult or club. Dress normal! Not a suit and tie unless that is your daily attire.

I have seen such devices among the cruiser and chopper crowd, except that their’s were on two separate gimbals so it always stays perpendicular to the ground. Seems like they were around $20. So, I looked!

So long as you can wrap your head around the idea that not all Nazis were German and all Germans weren’t Nazis.

Dumb, just dumb . . .

Not a bad looking car at all.

It is my current wallpaper.

I do believe that everyone is giving short shrift to the German side of the Alps.

To visualize it correctly picture a round piece of tin about 1 metre wide. Paint it white. Add a black circle about 10 cm wide around the circumference of the white disk. Now add two parallel also in black at a 45 degree offset from the perpendicular. That is what a go fast sign looks like and very very few of…

In my preceding post I should have used this URL for a more complete answer. Sorry for the misdirection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale

Uh, who told you fairy tales were invented in Austria? I must admit when I wiki’d this thing I was surprised at the answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_d%27Aulnoy

That cop is in the wrong line of work. His superb skills in bringing the “perp” to richly deserved end. He should be racing somewhere to make a living at what he is obviously very good at.

This thing is so freakin’ ugly even the proletariat will instantly recognize this thing as a bad joke being played on some nouveau rich kids. As in so many things in life, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Yeah, I was enlisted. I had achieved the rank of Master Sergeant (E8). I was injured in a military vehicle accident and was hospitalized for my last two years. During that period I came down on the list for Master Gunnery Sergeant (E9) but was never promoted due to being non-deployable, which is a huge no no in the…