Yearly Archives: 2018


2

… Time to reminisce. By modest standards, I’ve owned some really good cars. Or at the very least… I’ve formed some really great relationships with cars that I’ve owned. For the last two decades, AE86 has always been front of mind. Raw, wrench friendly, and personal, I still dream of AE86 often. The AE86 however, is no longer a car […]

It’s Winter…


2

2018 is done. I attended just four solo events this year. Fuck. The car and my performance often left me lamenting choices made. This SSC class, and the shit tires it comes with means that the car is very nearly one of the slowest cars in solo. This in itself isn’t the end of the world, but in a small […]

Super SSC Party



2

Balls I want an AE86, and an SA22, and an S30 and… As a consequence of the internet and specifically BaT (aka Bring a Trailer), my car life feels horrifically mundane. Automotive dreams grow further and further away from reality. Only two years ago, I had to work hard to find one of my dream cars for sale. Now, there […]

When Your Car Life Is A Fantasy


I didn’t realize until recently myself… somewhere along the way I have become a GREAT Toyota loyalist. This is a declaration that I have made after great rationalization and debate. Standing up and saying you love Toyota, is like acknowledging that the frumpy girl down the street might not be the cutest thing around, but at least she makes a […]

トヨタ Banzai!



1

What if a place to drive didn’t have to be an epic tidy world-class experience? What if it wasn’t 500 acres of jaw dropping landscape? What if it was 40 acres of cast off and forgotten space? I’ve only been for a handful of laps around Motorland Mikawa, but I’m so deeply in love with this place that I seem […]

Simple Dream


Finally spring? Can hardly tell in this image, but it did crack 20 degrees yesterday. The snow is disappearing. And while I missed a preliminary solo event last weekend, the car is ready to go. Itching for some reasonable way to modify the car within solo rules, I have jumped on board the new Solo Spec Coupe class. That means equipping […]

2018 Version