Anyone who races cars (or toasters, anything for that matter) is a cheater and as someone who writes/talks about cars I am without question a liar. Quarter mile time, price, color and the granddaddy of them all, horsepower. All is subject to the automotive equivalent of creative license. BS factor increases directly…
What a summer. While I did not spend nearly as much of it in the car as I would have liked the Last Call Cruise a couple of weekends back was a nice way to close it out. More on that later, let's get the boring stuff out of the way.
Sometimes I am late to work. It is not for lack of transportation haste as the 930 attests to. No, I arrive late so I can stay late. The midnight oil I intend to burn is 20W50. Working late for me is a matter of convenience, simply my office is closer to the back roads. Late summer evenings covering twisting lightly…
Where the hell has Shannon been? Why is he referring to himself in the third person? WTF is going on here?
March 22nd was my 38th birthday, as if 35 wasn't bad enough. As a surprise gift my GF had my mom to fly out to Seattle to spend a week with me. A little background as it becomes relevant later on, my mom is a small woman of few words but a distinctly Italian temperament. It's no secret that our blood runs a bit hotter…
I feel that I need to start with an apology. After re-reading allot of these posts owning a 930 seems a bit, boring. I promise you, it's anything but. Living with this car turns down the volume of the day to day grind. It will also begin to annoy the crap out of your friends. Just recently I was compared to a…
Two thousand miles since January, I can say with absolute certainty that it has been best first 2k miles I have ever put on a car. My 930 with all its faults continues to earn its spot in the garage. The last couple of weeks have been great, the repair/reconfigure of the vacuum system is paying dividends. The car will…
My name is Shannon, I am used part hoarder. I throw away nothing when it comes to crusty used car parts. The more complex and consequently unlikely to be reusable, all the better in my book. A very long time ago I used a battery tie down bolt to replace a missing brake caliper bolt on a road trip in the Scirocco. Now…
I planned on doing most of the work mentioned in the previous post over a weekend while the girlfriend unit was away. Guilt free, I could spend all day in the garage with the dog. It was going to be a great weekend, oil stained hands, junk food, no baby showers and free naps. Everybody wins. As box after box arrived…
When we last spoke I was basking in the glow of having taken a perfectly running 911 Turbo and converted it to a great example of why I should not have access to tools. Or the internet for that matter. It was a modest repair, a single 3.5ft piece of vacuum line. Around $2 bucks worth to be exact. That was Sunday of…
As I related previously I owned an 87 VW 16V Scirocco. It was my first German car and the first thing I ever turned a wrench in anger on. I bought it on the advice of fellow flight school student from Germany. The car brought me many great experiences, the best being the VW community. To this day nearly every single…
Ok, where did we leave off? Ahh….right, an engine out tune up and subsequent trip back into the shop to sort some issues.
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Its been just over 4.5 years since I bought a one of my BMW hero cars, a 1986 635CSi. A love affair which began at 16 in rural Iowa at a gas station.
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