If you’re an avid reader… scratch that, who am I kidding? I don’t have avid readers, but if I did, they would know I like rear engine, air cooled cars. Ever the classic #VW fan I do have my derivatives. Naturally the largest being the #DeLorean which is water cooled, but how can you not love a car that … Continue reading The Corvair or the Prinz?
Stuttgart, Porsches and Alarming Idiots
I’ve referenced before how one upside of my job is that I get to travel, sometimes to the armpit of Texas and sometimes to wonderful places like Germany. I’ll have a long-term rental car roundup in the near future but today I want to talk about #Stuttgart. Known for many things, most importantly the Wilhelma … Continue reading Stuttgart, Porsches and Alarming Idiots
Five Ways to Spot an Undercover Five-Oh
Close your eyes. Relax. Picture yourself cruisin' down the freeway in the hot, hot sun, your BAE (did I use that right?) in the seat beside you admiring the fast speed at which your vehicle is driving. Suddenly red-blue lights flash you from behind, loud voice booming “Please step out onto the line.” How bizarre? … Continue reading Five Ways to Spot an Undercover Five-Oh
How to Premium Your Cheap Base Model in Three Easy Steps
Life is all about image, right? Well maybe not but if you are shallow enough and believe that beauty is only skin deep there are three easy steps to premium your base model vehicle on the outside that work wonders. (1) Tint them windows. Not only is tinting freaking sweet, like Vin Diesel and Paul … Continue reading How to Premium Your Cheap Base Model in Three Easy Steps
Why Does Your Toyota Smell Like a Fart?
We are back! And-as you can tell by the title of this article-with quality content!!! YES! Three exclamation points. Get on up Racers it's sulfur surfing time! It was 2004 and I had just enlisted in the service. Like most I was wide eyed and full of optimism. Scratch that I was cynical, probably more … Continue reading Why Does Your Toyota Smell Like a Fart?
2017 Spillout VW Show and Swap Meet
Welcome to our first post covering an auto show. Naturally since it was Matt who went it was a #VW show. Texas can be hot, but they always know how to car show... specifically under a large pavilion at "Traders Village" which is a gynormous flea market in southwest San Antonio. Those are just four … Continue reading 2017 Spillout VW Show and Swap Meet
The Phantom Menace Redux
In the previous post I talked about stumbling across a #BarnFind #craigslist ad that simply stated "1973 Volkswagen." I shot off an email and got a text response from the owner's daughter, Hannah. Hannah was very nice and we talked a good deal about her father's collection and what he had acquired over the past 27 … Continue reading The Phantom Menace Redux
The Phantom Menace
If you are like me and love cars, which if you are on this page you probably are, then you spend a fair amount of the day looking at craigslist for that rare gem that everyone else misses. Honestly it is an addiction. Today I came across an add titled "Warehouse full of #barncars." Yeah, … Continue reading The Phantom Menace
Bugatti
The #Bugatti If you’ve been living under an automotive rock then you don’t know Bugatti is working on the #Veyron successor. A successor called #Chiron. You may be unfamiliar with the name Chiron, however, it is a title assigned to the top #centaur amongst centaurs. The Chiron was the most wise and the most just … Continue reading Bugatti
That time I drove through Berlin
This is the one. This is the one I’ve been planning to write for a long, long time. Almost a rental car round up but so much more. Once, not so long ago, I drove a vehicle I had hoped to drive since the moment I learned of its existence. When I was a boy … Continue reading That time I drove through Berlin
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