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  • The Small Truck

    What this country needs is a good mini pickup truck.  I think. Maybe it is just because the huge vehicles stand out, but haven’t pickup trucks and SUV’s just gotten larger and larger?  Honestly I don’t know how garages can… Continue reading

  • A Small Job

    This time of year when the leaves have yielded to gravity I have to decide if I need to mow the lawn once more or if it will wait until spring.  This weekend my decision was in the affirmative and I… Continue reading

  • Car Movies – Two Lane Blacktop

    The end of the year is full of holidays and consequently provides time to sit in from of a TV and watch a DVD.  Earlier this year I put together a list of “car movies” and gave Two Lane Blacktop… Continue reading

  • Emerging Markets – Its not just about the USA

    Today the global automobile market is about 65 million vehicles and by 2010 it is predicted to rise to 73 million.  This growth will be principally in four countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China.  All the car companies will be… Continue reading

  • Coming – Wedge Brakes

    Hydraulic brakes were a huge improvement over the mechanical brakes originally used in motor cars.  Disk brakes replaced drum brakes and braking capacity was further improved.  In the last thirty years ABS has gone from an option on exotic cars… Continue reading

  • The Salt Flats

    A few years back I picked up a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX.  I spent a half a dozen years working to improve what was a fantastically fun car to the point that I had to bring it to a real road… Continue reading

  • Tools

    Key to maintaining the health and vitality of your car is being sure that you have useful and appropriate tools at hand. It is also important for your own safety and well being to make sure that you invest wisely in… Continue reading

  • Speed Bumps

    I hate them.  Does anyone really like them?  Do they really do any good? Then there are the “traffic calming humps”.  Tell me, does anyone feel calm after transversing those things? I think the theory is that the humps are… Continue reading

  • Autumn and Your Car

    You’ve turned back your clock, changed out the batteries in your smoke alarms, what should you be doing with your car? How about checking the tires?  Taking a look at the tire pressures and making sure that they are what… Continue reading

  • What Makes a Road Great

    For some people it is a freshly paved stretch of asphalt that is straight as an arrow and flat as a pancake.  They look forward to the speed they can attain without the bother of slowing down for curves or fighting gravity’s… Continue reading