Worry not, for the Firebird remains ever vigilant, waiting to take flight in our time of need.

Pour one out (NorCal fires)

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

There has been much more lost in the Northern California wildfires than cars. Really, machines don’t matter when lives are lost and homes destroyed, so we must keep perspective. Still... machines can mean something to us, so allow me a moment to mourn this one.

Planespotting and worst photos ever of: Lockheed Electra!

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

10/11/17 1:11pm

You can’t not run outside when you hear twin radials on climb out. Damn cool, I’ve never seen one.

Cheers Opponauts

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/29/17 11:52pm

There’s a lot of shit going down in the world, people in need, suffering, struggles, and strife around the globe. Easy to feel helpless, hard to explain the future to our children, easy to feel guilt for something so inane as enjoying a beer when so many can’t get clean water or shelter. The travails of everyday life…

Ever see two airplanes hit each other?

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/25/17 2:39pm

Pretty sure I did, and it wasn’t just two airplanes. IT WAS TWO F/A-18s. They performed the flyover for the Continental race at Laguna Seca on Saturday. Neat flyover, very close, with a very messy separation just after passing over the facility to the east, when they appeared to touch. Several people around me saw…

Camp Oppo

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/22/17 2:18pm

Laguna Seca sunrise

Spaghetti Sunday: The Cheapest Most Expensive Car In The World

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/17/17 10:00am

This is Ferrari 250 GTO number 3505GT, and it cost me $11.50. Quite a deal when you consider that the real one sold for $35,000,000 dollars in 2012, then (and possibly still) the most expensive car ever.

A couple of cool old Fords I done seen

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/15/17 11:24pm

French Friday: Panhard CD

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/15/17 2:00pm

Today I’m finally back to a French Friday with a car that could have come from nowhere else. This has been seen before here, but is now half a world away, it’s the Panhard CD.

TVRsday on the Thames: Pub2Pub Visits SLOtown

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/14/17 5:25pm

We had very special visit this week from the great, crazy people of the Pub2Pub Expedition, driving their TVR Chimaera from Svalbard, Norway to Ushuaia, Argentina. An odd drive, right? There’s a very good reason for it, and that’s the northernmost and southernmost pubs in the world! My kind of drive, then...

Effing hot today

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/02/17 2:21am

(Not my car, was on a road test. Clock and date are wrong, obviously. R32 is also a client, coincidentally)

Know what I love?

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

9/01/17 12:09am

12 hour days.

"Masterpiece of engineering"... "all about function"...

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/30/17 9:05pm

Looks at roll structure:

Goals vs. Reality

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/29/17 4:20pm

Goal: Yesterday I learned that the American Lancia Club’s West Coast Reunion will be held very close to me in May of next year. I would love to have this thing on the road for it, cosmetics be damned. And if I can make that, maybe I can make Concorso Italiano next August and troll the field with my “patina”.

Mustang Monday

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/22/17 12:27am

Today I present the only diecast I gained at the Rolex Reunion, picked out by my 5 year old (with just a little direction, I admit) after she said she wanted to buy me a dark blue car, because she knows that’s my favorite color. She also picked out a couple of casts from the Cars franchise, one for her and one for…

In which I take a whole case of diecasts to the Rolex Reunion (photo heavy)

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/20/17 4:07am

But pretty much only match Porsches, because they’re everywhere. It was supposed to have featured the 70th anniversary of Ferrari as well as Formula Junior, so I took a bunch of Ferraris and a variety of other likely attendees, with only a few Porsches. Turns out there were even less Ferraris than last year, when BMW…

An thing I saw today

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/18/17 11:22pm

I want it

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/18/17 4:38pm

This would be a hell of a cool dad cruiser, I think.

Monterey car week in full swing

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/17/17 8:46pm

I can hear all these crazy cars heading north on 101 from my desk since yesterday, accelerating onto the freeway after a fuel stop at a nearby gas station, and I’m just here like...

An unusual day in the shop

TFritsch doesn't even like cars 99% of the time. But oh, that 1%.

8/16/17 2:53pm

Everything in here is fairly cool. Not often the case.