Yearly Archives: 2013


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When it comes to turning wrenches, I swing hammers and throw F-bombs only when I’m lying under the car fighting seized bolts and wrestling with heavy components. Put my car on a well lit bench that I can sit beside, and you can walk my Grandma out there to sit beside me and do her word find puzzles. I’ll even […]

On The Bench


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It’s always been the case, but I’m finally learning how to embrace it. World Rally Car’s are my favourite cars of all time. Some like Formula 1. Some like touring cars. Some like Group B. The original World Rally Car regulations (circa 1997) are certainly the ultimate for me though. I don’t think there is a better blend of the […]

World Rally Car 1.1



I’m often a pretty serious reader, but except for serious tech books have never found anything auto related that I thought was even worth a second glance. This however, did well to catch my eye, and keep my attention throughout. Written by a self described non-car guy, it did occasionally bore and annoy with attempted technical descriptions, but I was […]

Ingenious?


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Bought some pink for my Subaru… but it’s no STI or “i” badge. It’s the fuzzy fibers that likely line the walls of your house, and now line the walls of my barn. This is Canadian car life. Odd that it took me almost 7 years to get around to this. Oh… how my car life would be different from […]

Pink For My Subaru



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Subaru participated in F1? I never knew. Unlike most boxer engines (which I find pretty hard to look at), this one is serious eye candy. Yeow. With a displacement of 3500cc, apparently it’s good for 650hp – not good enough to be competitive in 1990… but maybe still the greatest naturally aspirated, 180 degree engine ever. Lucky for me… I […]

NA is Better Too


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320hp… at four wheels. And listen to that beautiful racket. Reminds me of Mosport. Reminds me of Bombay and Tonics… I must do this.

NA is Better