Started and backed out of the garage under its own power. I am pleased.
Westley Graham-Paige
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Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc. Not just pretty words.
In case you’re wondering, the new X3 actually does a decent job on the unpaved and fire roads in middle-of-nowhere, Nevada. Let’s not tell Sixt about this, please.
Here’s a post about GM quality, 2008 Yukon edition. Here we have the o-ring sealing the pickup tube to the oil pump, installed like this July 2007. And next we have the incredible leaking hydraulic motor mount, and the front differential covered in leaked motor mount shmoo.
Car weenies on the Internet won’t shut up about how MLS head gaskets require a perfect surface finish down to microns and they won’t take any variation in tolerance. They obviously didn’t tell the guy at GM who machined the heads on this truck in 2007.
I’ve wanted these since I had a Radio Shack 4x4 RC truck with a light bar in 1988. And now I have them. I rule.
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Look, man, I’m not saying the badging on my truck will be cooler than yours, but… the badging on my truck will be cooler than yours.
Yesterday a coworker told me that he thought he saw me on the news, but it turns out that it was “that guy running for office in Maine” and if you need me I have pockets that need to be filled with rocks and a lake to go walk into.
I did a thing. I never thought I’d be a Panerai guy, but here we are. I always lumped Panerai in with the early 2000s — bad action flicks, tribal tattoos, goatees, the œuvres of Tony Scott and Sylvester Stallone… Maybe the brand is evolving. Maybe my tastes are. Maybe I’ve just become “that guy.”
My parents, when I was three, saved money by making me wear my sister’s old pink princess costume and told me that I was a wizard, then send us out trick or treating. This is my villain story.
I am pleased to report that I am back in London and the same street-parked Citroén ZX in Islington is still here.
Fifteen52s are installed. I don’t use the word “dope” often, but…
Finally got the Bilstein 5100s with the NOS Z71 springs installed last night and I'm pretty pleased with the front ride height. As a treat, ordered some black fifteen52 Turbomac HDs to mount the K03s on. I worked for Brad Beardow for a few years at VMG, so call it residual fondness for the brand.
You know the scene in Don McKellar's "Last Night" where the world will end at midnight, but there's a guy at the power company, dutifully calling customers to let them know that the lights will remain on until the end? Working this weekend so an ad campaign can launch Monday morning feels similar.
I was going to chase some brake-line fittings so they screw into the new hoses ends more easily, but appear to have *lowers sunglasses* lost the thread. 𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘩𝘩𝘩
This person in my condo complex just out here living their best life.
The plate showed up for the Yukon this afternoon. Sure, it's a little childish and stupid. But so is the world right now.
Okay, so the Bronco wheels are definitely going to look good on the Yukon.
Remembering the time that I convinced my parents to look at a then-new '92 Camry as our family car, but they didn't like that the seats were "so firm" so they instead went out and bought... A four-cylinder Plymouth Acclaim. My villain origin story isn't dramatic, but at least it's understandable.
This scene from 1988’s “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” where Preston is lighting a cigarette whilst on trial for fraud goes harder than Coppola intended.
The Suzuki Cappuccino owners’ manual is the most adorable thing around, and it’s not even close.
