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It seems to never end. Every time I pass a magazine rack you check out the cover car and they boast something like 590hp Civic, 670hp WRX, 800hp (YOUR BRAND HERE), etc. That’s cool, someone modded up a car and made some big hp. But now those numbers are starting to climb for the production cars. No big deal, but too many knot-heads driving them around and showing up at car gathering showing off their pride and joy. Fine, but make sure you know how to drive your car. Just because you have the bread to pick up a Veryon, Porsche GT, etc, learn how to drive your car so I don’t have a nice laugh when I see your car on the Wrecked Exotics Site. It is a bummer when you check out the carnage on that site. And it is not getting any better, cars are getting faster and have more HP every year. And people aren’t getting any smater or better drivers it seems. If you have one of these cars (you know who you are) and think you can drive fast because it handles like a dream, let me know when the pictures are going to be up on the Wrecked Exotics Site. Simple solution, take a high performance driving course where they let you drive YOUR car. Or find out about track event that offer the HPDE (High Performance Driving Event) where you can get an instructor and hit the track and drive as hard as you feel safe AND don’t endanger me. By the way, you can use BLUE tape to keep any rock chips from messing with your paint and I can assure you that the damage from that will be less they you plowing into my Excursion (You will lose).

All this chatter about miles per gallon… You only hear about it when the price of gasoline goes up. Once it stabilizes we are back buying performance cars and SUV’s. On with the discussion…

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I have come to the conclusion that I must have a bad a$$ blog due to the fact that I get a hoard of spam. I can say one thing that the Askimet Wordpress Plugin works so well that I hardly ever have to do anything to keep it out of the rants and raves. Sometimes I look at the messages to see how stupid the spam-bots are by making it so easy to detect. You would think in this day an age of High-tech that they would be better. Seems not. Any-a-way’s not much going on from the car front, got the word that the Sunbeam Tiger Gauges are completed. I’ll post more info on that in the Tiger section in a week or so when they show up. The Mustang’s engine is back under way at QMP, I had a problem with wrong crank and had to get a new one, then had to swap out the connecting rods since they were Chevy Journal vs Ford. Now back on track, will have to see what next might be instore. GT40 is dormant, Cobra dormant, but close, will update on that as well in the next week or so.

California’s New Cell Phone Law,  Safety Or Just Another Revenue Stream that is the question?

At first I thought that the new DMV laws that are to go into effect July might be something that is really good. I’m still a bit torn as the question of safety while using a cell phone is obvious but expecting this to really be policed is another story.

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Nice job in getting the Chevrolet Malibu the 2008 North American Car of the year. Not a bad looking car from Chevy. My first car was a Chevelle SS396 (Malibu) so the history is good. This is actually pretty impressive, come on this is GM, not Toyota, Honda, etc. I think last year Saturn took the honors, but who really cares about that unless your a Saturn zealot.

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Well it’s finally here. Quickly press the ‘A’ Button and jump over the theater that is playing this P.O.S. movie. While the cast was interesting and good, and good CG work, it just blew. The story goes like this, I took my young son to a showing at the IMax at Universal City Walk. It should have rocked with a 12,000 watt sound system and a screen bigger then a football field, but read on…

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Tata, the makers of the $2500 car will hope to purchase Jaguar and Land Rover. I can only wonder what this will be like at the luxury car dealership. Lincoln, Aston Martin, Jaguar and Tata. You can buy a car for over 200k and one under 3K all at the same place. Let’s see, Ford sells Aston Marting to Prodrive and they win LeMans. Ford sells Jaguar, Maybe Jaguar is voted best import car of the year… Land Rover, well, honestly who give a shit! I read that even Fiat was going to throw in with Tata. Man, what a shit box could come out of that mix… OR could it be genius?

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It finally happened, I paid over $4 a gallon for Diesel fuel. All the gas prices moved up a bit, but it seems that the Diesel grade took a big hit. I have never been sure why Diesel is more expensive then gasoline since it seems like it undergoes much less refinement then gasoline. What to do? Nothing. Swipe the credit card 4 times now to fill the 44 gallon tank. At least I don’t have to fill up that often and see the prices, but it does get old having to reach the $75 pre-auth limit on the credit car and only get about 19 gallons…

The questions was pondered in my mind as I’m giving someone an invitation to make a lane change on the packed 405. The driver had the signal on and was edging to make the lane change in front of me, but wouldn’t do it. I guess room to land a 747 wasn’t enough room to slide in. Continue Reading »

It’s wicked Wednesday on the Olympic corridor (what seems like the worst day for the drive home), and cars are all grid locked as usual. Then I noticed that cars are are as usual stopped in the intersections. What I realized is that these were ones that didn’t have a sign that said ‘Keep Intersection Clear‘ so I guess it was OK for people to just block it out. But what I also noticed was that some people don’t close the gap to the car in front. Must be some throwback to the 10mph == 1 Car Length for safety.

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