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Elm Street Car Show

11 Oct

Mid-Engine v8 Pickup

A recent car show closed Elm Street in Manchester NH down from traffic, opening it up for the best cars in the area to be shown off.

Aftermath of Irene

29 Aug

downtown Shelburne Falls MA during Hurricane Irene

We weathered the hurricane/tropical-storm here without too much massive damage, and everyone is safe. All things considered, this wasn’t too bad.

ManchVegas Car Show

22 Aug

Kind of Blue in the Parking Lot

I misuse car shows: I always spend more time in the visitor parking lot than in the show itself.

Road Trip to NY

10 Sep

e36 BMW tire wear

  This holiday weekend, I took a 6-hour trip to central New York to check out a “project” turbo 280z, which turned out to be just a pile of parts held together with some bits of rust and fiberglass.  The price was absolutely right, but it wasn’t worth spending all the extra time restoring the [...]

Shadetree mechanics

22 Jul

shadetree mechanics

Newer cars are slowly pushing shadetree mechanics out from under their cars.

Happy Birthday, America

4 Jul

Happy 4th of July

Off Seasons

16 Jun

Off Seasons – a slow, graceful ballet of drifting in an abandoned parking lot.

BMW Civic

11 Jun

I’ve been driving my e36 BMW around a bit lately, and ended up parking next to a Civic today.

Dear Turn10

7 Apr

Letter to Turn10 studios, requesting bolt-on overfenders.

Own MORE tools.

20 Mar

Tools

Guest post from Nodus, in response to my previous post about owning fewer tools.