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  • Great Drivers – Randy Pobst

    You can debate whether or not great drivers are made or born all you want, but you cannot dispute when you come across one, and Randy Pobst is one great driver.  This year he raced in two championships and nearly… Continue reading

  • Mark Donahue – Early Telemetry

    A friend sent me this photograph of Mark in a test car with what looks like an early attempt to use an on-board computer to gather data.   Does anyone know if this is true? Continue reading

  • The Hard Reality of Time

     With intense determination I had decided to fulfill my dream of driving on a road racing track with a high performance car that I had developed myself.  I had raced in autocrosses when I was much younger, back in the… Continue reading

  • Tis the Season

     It is that season when we move our minds to just what kind of present we can get for that car nut that we know. Here are a few suggestions that you can wrap your budget around. Books: One suggestion… Continue reading

  • A New Garage Door

      Lately I have been sprucing up my thirty-year-old house with new siding, a new roof, and fresh paint.  It was also time to replace the old garage door with something that didn’t creek, sag, or flake off paint.  I… Continue reading

  • Project Legacy GT SpecB – part 2

    This week we had a visit from a car that we had worked on some before.  It is Ted’s 2006 Subaru Legacy GT SpecB.  This is quite an interesting car from Subaru.  It comes with a lot of luxury items… Continue reading

  • A Thanksgiving Assist – Audi A4

    It was a couple of days before Thanksgiving and a friend needed some help getting his wife’s Audi A4 in shape for a trek to the the in-laws.  This was a Quatro with the small turbo 1.8 engine and had… Continue reading

  • A Lawn Mower to Die for

    This guys is amazingly creative.  I love the HAL 9000 computer control.  Enjoy going to this site and seeing more of his work. Continue reading