Perfect timing. March 2 is Dr. Seuss’s birthday. (My KG class just celebrated on friday.)

I went to his museum last year. It was one of the best car museums I have ever visited. I had no idea that the car in this post existed before today, I really wish I could have seen it and taken a better look at it. I loved looking at all of the details of his monster Jeep and Dodge. Being able to walk under them and…

My take away: My convertible car is from 2003 and has a glass window in the back and I an not an old man but my heels are getting cracked. (It is very dry where i live...) I love existing on the opposite end of the spectrum. 

Thats not too far from where... and it would be a riot to take to track days and autocross events! For a clean car in Michigan thats not a bad price. Seriously, it is depressing looking through craigslist for cars under $5000 in SE Michigan. As my search criteria is usually manual trans, 2 door body style, and RWD, it…

I was always a bigger fan of the snake in that video... but it made me laugh when I was a bored teenager. 

That is some good planning! I’ve only bought Amtrack tickets the day of my travels! In China, the train tickets only go for sale a few weeks before the departure time so people are more stressed out about not getting a ticket because there is not much time to find another mode of transportation and everything else is…

I drive a BMW and over compensate on my turn signal usage to make up for the shortcomings of the others. I’ll use my turn signal coming out of a parking spot with no one around just because. 

This is pretty unfortunate and I have no idea what happened outside of the 10 seconds or so I saw what was happening. This was also before I could drive so, around 2003. Being a passenger meant that I could actually look out the windows and see stuff.

The tickets sell out fast. You basically have to buy your ticket with in the first few minutes after they become available. My coworkers often chat about how lucky or unlucky their ticket buying goes around holidays. 

There are two sides to this story. Yes everyone goes to their home towns and stays with their families but that means that Beijing’s population is reduced by more than half. I wish I had the actual figure here, but most of Beijing’s population is made up of people from other cities. For a foreigner like me (I have 2…

I went to university in Beijing in the early 00’s. I would take the subway everywhere because it was so cheap and one fare covered the whole system. One time late at night a migrant construction worker who obviously had way too much rice wine and garlic for dinner couldn’t keep it all in. He vomited quite an…

You are the only person I am replying to because of the great injustice you did to that car. My family had the same combo and it’s what I learned to drive in as well as it’s the car that literally traveled the world with us so you should feel very bad for what you did. I really regret having to sell ours a few years…

Thank you for telling the other side of the story. I’ve always felt that those anti-warmup-ers were full of it. Seriously though, I tend to remote start my car while I am putting on my shoes and jacket before I go to work. It only takes me less than 10 minutes to drive to work and on really cold days the oil temps…

I also have a Z4 and it’s a pretty old one. I’ve replaced a lot of the suspension components as the originals degrade. After every time I put something new on I go and get an alignment. Sometimes it’s still fine after a fix, but sometimes it’s a bit off. Anyway, I bought a life time alignment deal from Firestone so…

Interesting you say that. I am just a bit older than you and I don’t deal well with change. I still love the Challenger style. I’ve driven a few rentals and every year the interior gets better and better which I like and the outside stays delightfully retro. The GTR is now iconic and classic I’ve been in love since…

I feel for you. Theres a few cars like that here in my Beijing neighborhood. It wasn’t a problem a few years ago but now there are more and more cars it is becoming a issue.

When I was younger I would always try to guess what car my family was behind from looking at the taillights. I was never very good a guessing as a child, and I sadly have to report that I am still not very good. The only one I knew was the Hyundai and I probably got that one because I own an 07 Tiburon. Granted, most…

His Citroen was mint too. It was a shame to have to sell such a bulletproof car but it was approaching 15 years old which would have made continued ownership very difficult. I know the dealer we sold it to had it sent off to a rural province where the laws are a bit more relaxed. I bet a lot of the Citroens you see…

Thanks, that is my Camaro. It is near the top of my list of things that I love (after my wife of course). It may not be the top of the line, but it is mine and I am thankful that I can say that. 

Sorry about your experience but I love your writing style, that was a fun post to read.