Cars

  • What Has Happened to Racing?

     What has happened to automobile racing?  Like many professional sports it has become focused on the individual instead of the team.  The drivers have become personalities where it is almost more important for them to showboat than it is for… Continue reading

  • 2007 – A Look Back

     There had been rumors that the price of oil might climb as the year began.  Few really expected it to be any more than the usual seasonal rise as the road travel season approached.  After all, the refineries around the… Continue reading

  • Road Trip – B-Mac’s

      This week I took a short road trip to visit a restoration shop in the Raleigh area.  You hear a lot about places like Chip Foose and Boyd Codington, but there are some very talented shops that don’t get… Continue reading

  • Filling Tires with Snake Oil

    The original set of tires that came on my Evolution MR lasted to just under 13,000 miles (12,812).  I had heard the stories about how little mileage to expect from the Yokohama Advan A046 tires.  Many Evolution owners quickly looked… Continue reading

  • Mistubishi – What’s New

    Several reports support the news that Mitsubishi will be releasing a Ralliart version of the Lancer that sounds like an enthusiasts affordable Evolution.  No, it won’t have quite the power, but it will have AWD.  In fact, it will use… 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fast Cars Driven by Fast Drivers

    CRT | Amazing fast driver kills 31 cars in ONE lap! What I really like about this is the driving… Continue reading