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A laptop portable would be the preferred and graceful means to retrieve fault codes from this vehicle’s onboard computer. Unfortunately, the proprietary serial interface cable dongle from my tool box needs a COM port and (all my) computing devices have evolved toward USB 2.0. The only machine in the house with a vestigial serial port [...]

Honda et. al. are not resting. While the US Government pours design incentive money into Hydrogen Fuel Cell tech. The Japanese continue to engineer increasingly efficient Hybrids. Their technology is moving fast enough to make the current green car offerings – well… old tech. I would be hesitant to actually own one of these only [...]

The 1960 Chrysler Imperial Le Baron, IMHO, is the most beautiful, perfectly proportioned, graceful 4 door car ever created. Who says that 1959 Cadillac had the most flamboyant fins?

Cruisin’ main street in the roaster roadster is most enjoyable after the sun goes down…

Oh Sure! Drop ME like a hot potatoe! S’man had just hit me up for us to go to lunch when the phone rings and his buddy, Grant, suggests that they make use of S’man’s brand new drivers license to go fly — effectively by-passing dear ‘ol Dad , who is no longer needed

Everybody wants stick time, so the clutch has been warm ever since we brought it home. KB and S’man have the mechanics of shifting after only two lessons. They are good to go — as long as I’m riding shotgun… and the hills aren’t too steep… and it’s not commute hour traffic. Spencer wants to [...]

B.O.U.R.Girl and I drove over to the north side this afternoon to inspect an S2000 that I spotted on craigslist.org. The owner represented it as her “baby”, and pampered, “near tears over parting with it” but it turns out that she is only a silent partner and that it’s really her brother’s car. The windshield [...]

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Was killing time in Virginia yesterday morning and decided to visit Sterling BMW / MINI just up the road from my crashpad. I wanted to inspect the Mini Cooper close up so I put my butt in one and it was fiiiine. Sticker shock though. All of them are loaded up with leather and accessorie [...]

Come to think of it, the most exotic cars I see are on the web or in magazines — until I got to South Florida… Spotting at least one or two speeding Bentley Continental Coupes or a Lambo per day is not unusual. Witnessing some outrageous moves on the expressway, stuff that would get you [...]