Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
California Smog test... not much interested in tailpipe emissions
If you have had a jump start, replaced your battery, or removed your battery to replace engine parts like I did yesterday, your newer model vehicles with computers will have lost some memory that the smopg test requires as so important, you fail the smog test
What the hell is so essential about the computer memory of my Grand Am? How much time I've spent over the speed limit? How much I've spun the tires to the extent the computer kicks in the idiot light for "Loss of traction" ?
The smog test guy tells me that it's the history of the computer tuning the fuel and exhaust parts that can vary to keep the emissions clean.
I told him that if the emission out the muffler is clean it is good enough for me. I have to come back once I've added a lot of miles to the history of the computer, so the state of California can see that my car doesn't have to work too much to keep the emissions in check
Sunday, February 6, 2011
D'Agostino Customs tackled one of the ugliest cars, a 1975 Stutz Bearcat... Elvis loved them, but do you?
John and his company do great work... and this will stand out anywhere is goes, but would you want it?
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
I found another hilarious writer of automobile columns, here's an excerpt
Let's say you bought a Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon, with a 6.2-liter, 556-horsepower Corvette V8, six-speed manual transmission.... thundering through the quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds at 116 mph, according to my colleagues at Car and Driver, who do impeccable instrumented testing.
....this wagon is about as esoteric an automobile as you're likely to find. Statistically speaking, General Motors will sell exactly none of these cars, the Detroit equivalent of Zoroastrianism.
But if you did buy one, what would you do with it? You'd have a lot of options.
Such a car would be useful if you wanted to duck car-pooling duty or avoid field trips with the Cub Scouts, because no child emerging weepy and jelly-kneed from the back seats of this supercharged washing machine will ever want to get back in.
Perhaps you could put on demonstrations for the local high-school physics club, using the g-meter built into the car's instrument cluster to show exactly what more than 1 g of lateral acceleration feels like. It feels like a fat lady is trying to push you out the side window. Or if not physics, the Greek club, since like Antaeus the V-Wagon maintains an Olympian grip on the earth and draws strength from it. Maybe you could help out at the police training range, letting cadets chase you to improve their hot-pursuit driving skills. Then, having been completely demoralized, these plebes will quit to become firemen. The world needs firemen.
The only people who will want this car are people like me, dizzy enthusiasts and car lovers, but more than that: car reviewers. Car reviewers cycle in and out of dozens of new cars every year. We buy not, neither do we lease. And because of that, we can afford to fall in love with a snot-flinging rodeo bull like the V-Wagon (or cars like the now-defunct Dodge Magnum, the Audi RS6 Avant, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Estate or the Europe-only BMW M5 Touring). If we were spending our own money, we might reasonably ask why a station wagon needs to be faster than a mid-1990s Lamborghini.
By DAN NEIL at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703555804576102202985268590.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Kirk Douglas goofing off for the camera in a wheelbarrow
It's cool to finally post a photo of Kirk Douglas, I've enjoyed his movies, and he's the type of celeb movie star that I'd catagorize as "cool". In 20,000 leagues he even sang, and that song is part of the Disney songs catalog... not the guy you'd expect to find int he Disney song catalog huh?
found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=1020
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Funniest thing I read all day
Nowhere among the credits ascribed to the talented group of influential designers profiled (Dec 2010 issue of Automobile Magazine article "They Draw, We Drive") did I find any reference to the marque that dominated almost twenty percent of that same issue's editorial content. A marque whose cars' very shape characterize speed, whose corporate profits are apparently too embarrasingly large to publish, and that has redefined the SUV "hockey mom brat bus" and, most recently, the family sedan. As I had suspected, Porsches must be designed by God!
written by Paul R. Gerst from Newport Beach California
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Time for humor
I never thought about all the potential uses for fold down windows... sure looks like it makes a great table for drive ins!
C300 dragster.. great!
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