Huh. This is in my hometown. Didn’t notice any magic mushrooms on offer beside the strawberries at the Farmers Market or a sale on 55 gallon drums of Bondo over at O’Reilly’s this morning but we have some odd stuff that goes on here in good ol’ Yolo County perpetrated by all sorts of skinwalkers based on what I read…

This is why I am an old Beetle guy. With a friend along to help wrench and carry heavy stuff, you could have the whole car taken apart enough to carry through the front door and stash in the rumpus room.

When I was 16, I convinced my Mom to buy a 5-speed 900T over the automatic E28 Bimmer she preferred. Oh sweet brambleberries did I beat the stuffing out of that poor car as my daily at the time was a ‘71 Super Beetle with perhaps 38 of its original horsepower remaining. The mechanics at the dealer could never quite…

Looks nice but no diesel which sucks as I love the 958D that is my daily. Going to be a hard calculation to make when it runs out of warranty as these things are fiendishly expensive to repair when things go wrong big time. One of ours had a massive oil leak as a result of a failed rear engine cover and PCNA ate a…

Amazing how hard it is to drive the old ones with anything resembling brio. I feel like Fangio’s bastard grandson when I break 40 MPH in my ‘54 Chev 3100 as it’s much more thrilling and terrifying than doing the ton in my modern oil burning SUV with the aircon on meat locker and the sat radio belting out yacht rock.

It rubs the Lexol on the leather or it gets the hose again!

How about a rollback tow truck with a Pikey-spec caravan hitched to the back? Rollbacks are neat when you’re doing the sort of off-road work you have planned as you can pretty easily winch busted stuff up on the to bed and as a bonus you can pick up side jobs doing repo work when you’re not otherwise occupied.

Probably the best remaining example of its type but it really only makes sense for someone who rolled out of the double wide to head down to the Piggly Wiggly to play the lotto using their favorite Earnhardt and Waltrip car numbers and hit the jackpot. G-bodies of this era can be fun but only when the power unit…

No way in hell would I do this with my fleet. As my dear old Dad says “Them that came before ye made the rules”. Loaned my then brand new dually to a friend to do a trip and it came back dented and and scratched with no offer to fix the damage. Now I have two categories of friends: 1) Those who would help me move; and…

Looks like prices on the cheap stuff have finally come back to reality. I went to Mecum three years ago and saw a bunch of guys in bad Hawaiian shirts all loaded up on overpriced cocktails getting in wang measuring contests and bidding up complete garbage cars. Saw a ‘69 Beetle get bid up to $9500 and when I looked at…

When I was a kid, a family that lived down the street had five Alfas and a janky Econoline that smelled like cat piss inside. The van was the only thing that they regularly drove as the Alfas were regularly crapping out and leaving them stranded at various points all over Los Angeles. Looks like the tradition of…

Indeed. The VW dealers were completely backasswards while the Porsche dealer has been a consistent delight to work with as has PCNA when any issues come up. The $10K in cash per car for Dieselgate is really nice and now that they are unicorns we’ll most likely drive them forever barring any unforeseen calamities.

Looks like a fine opportunity to become a Human Shish-kabob. CP all damn day.

I have seen used ones here and there but they still have not released the 2016's that got nabbed by the stop sale. The “fix” is not available yet but they are doing inspections for the first part of the payments so hopefully they will get that worked out soon so we can get the rest of our cash. Shoot, I like our CD’s…

VW’s atrocious sales and dealers also did not help the T-Reg out. A few years back we tried to buy a TDI instead of springing for a new Cayenne and we literally could not find one equipped like we wanted it anywhere west of the Mississippi. The dealers could not even tell us how to order one and when we finally…

I am starting on a ‘54 Chevy 3100 that has this sort of grease. It kind of smells like driving by a refinery or a busy tanker port on a hot day when you open the hood. I suspect that the grease may indeed be acting as a de facto seal for a few of the mechanical bits hanging on the old Stovebolt 235 but I am armed with…

Tweakers ate most of them so no need to worry about them now.

Just lovely. Sounds like an angry Wookiee with a pack of parakeets backing his plays. Saw that run on the live feed but it’s even better without the announcers talking over the aural pleasures.

So custom. Much chrome. Very scrotum.

We had the Red Asphalt series to enjoy for our classroom sessions which caused one of my colleagues to projectile vomit when there was a shot of someone who tried to race a train. I guess the resemblance to what the lunch ladies served up that day was too close to ignore.