Yearly Archives: 2009





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Back in town. I’ve learned a little more love for my ZJ… and a lot more hate for Crackheads. Lastnight windows were smashed, cords ripped out of dashes, luggage rummaged… and our Camcorder and Ipod stolen. So much for all the pictures I had to share. Kamloops is seriously a dump town. Shops boarded up, gigantic chain restraunts staffed with […]

Road Trip


Have I given the impression that our Adventure is a car building adventure?  Because it’s not.  Certainly we need a car… but actually any car will do.  We are just so committed to car life success (ha), that we decided it would be ideal to bring a big gun to the fight.  We may still have a change in heart, and […]

Adventure III




Gotta be AmberWe all want to be fabricators extraordinare. Custom stuff adds so much to your car life. My problem is that because I have a few tools, I feel like I can do stuff that I really can't. Wife and I are heading off on a week long road trip tonight, and given the amount of driving we'll be doing, and the inadequacy of the factory head lights I thought it was important to add some auxillary driving lights. My past experience with driving lights has been... not that exciting. Everything I've ever bought has left me wondering... upon turning them on... if I had in fact turned them on. So this time around, I bought the biggest lights I could find... and afford. That meant some 7" 100W units that I found at Princess Auto... for... $50. Meh. The other lights I've had have all been 55W or 80W so... hopefully these do the trick. But where could I mount such big lights? They could have easily been mounted in the stock position, in front of the grill, but... given there gigantic size[...]

My Problem With DIY