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  • 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

  • F1 in the Rain

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  • 2008 Bullitt Mustang

      It only took Ford 40 years to get it right. Edmunds has done a test and supplies a video of the result on their web site.  It looks like a much better package than what was tried in 2001. … Continue reading

  • Why Car and Driver Pisses Me Off

     I’ve been reading Car and Driver for many years.  Not a steady reader mind you.  There have been times that they have frustrated me so much that I just gave up on them until a cover happened to catch my… Continue reading

  • The US According to Jim’s Garage

     Crude oil prices are creeping to the $100 a barrel and OPEC is upping production because they realize that they must be careful not to exceed the market’s ability to absorb fossil fuel’s impact upon our citizens’ ability to pay… Continue reading