This past Friday night was my last night at Home Depot. With my newfound freedom, I decided one of the most rewarding things I could be doing this weekend was to get back to the fort and clean up the relentless mess leftover from the use of “serious tools” on 195 just a few months back.

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I knew, before I paid for or even saw 195 in person, that the engine was all locked up. Would it be salvageable? Only taking delivery and tearing into things would tell for sure. Just as there were a couple months between when I paid Kelly for the car before I managed to collect it, it was a couple months after I got 195 back to the fort before I was able to start taking things apart. I scored a sweet deal on a 90 Eclipse GS-T with a “good” motor in it and got to work. Below is the scene at that time, Daisy sneaking into the foreground. Read the rest of this entry »

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I stumbled upon coverage of the World Rally Championship (WRC) on Speedvision back before they became NASCAR TV Speed Channel and fell instantly in love. I loved seeing the cars slide ‘round corners, fly through the air over jumps, and how, at least in the non-NASCAR world, the fans found their way out to the middle of nowhere to camp out by the road to watch the teams race past, one at a time. When I saw Petter Solberg and Phil Mills breaking out the tools to tighten the steering wheel (which was coming off) without stopping the car, I was hooked. I mean, that’s awesome. Read the rest of this entry »