Schwag

This package was waiting for me at the office of our apartment community...  I was excited.

One of my favorite automotive performance parts companies sent me a t-shirt and some stickers. There is a Facebook game called Car Town that I've been playing for a little while. In the game I made a custom paint job resembling one of the race cars they sponsor. They dug it. They sent me stuff. I'm stoked.

Wallgreen's Fashion

I'm not a stylish fellow by any stretch of the term. I know it. But I do at least know that Wallgreens is not the place to go for fashionable duds. This was confirmed over the weekend when we made a stop to pick up some beauty products. There, in neon-burn-your-retina-pink, hanging from the ceiling, dangling like kite stuck in a tree... it was what only could be described as the result of when a steamroller meets an In Living Color Fly Girl. Complete with boxy-robot-wedgie.



I could only imagine this was hung there by the employees as some kind of scarecrow. Perhaps to keep customers out.

Parking Lot Wars

Parking in our apartment community is extremely hard to come by if you arrive any later than 6:00 pm. It will probably be the thing I miss the least when we move in May. Besides the fact that it's hard to find parking, it's also full of cars parked by drivers who must be blind. Or at least they must be being attacked by bees at the time their of arrival. No one can park straight. Maybe they're color blind and they can't see the green lines on the black pavement.

Here is an example:

The driver of this car must have been really thin to get out of their car. I can't imagine them being able to open their door without it touching my car. Luckily it didn't leave any dings in my car, but regardless this is a big no-no. In Sir Cardigan's America this would be punishable by having the doors of your car removed.

Finished Product

I never got around to posting a picture of the finished table I had been working on with my brother.

It's not perfect, but it looks a lot better than it did. Next up is the chairs!

Spotted On The Street

An old Datsun B210. Not a particularly great car... I just took note of it because my mom used to drive one of these cars long, long ago. A little history lesson here. Datsun's parent company, Nissan, decided to brand all cars being shipped to America as Datsun instead of Nissan for fear that American's would not buy a Nissan brand car due to Nissan's involvement with the Japanese military during WWII.

Spotted On The Street

I saw this beauty parked in the parking structure at my work. It looks to be a 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K. It's a very rare and extremely expensive car. This car was built shortly before World War II. MB certainly doesn't have a squeeky clean reputation for it's actions during WWII... But ze Germans sure knew how to make a nice car. This was a pretty fast roadster in it's time. Schnell!

Spotted On The Street

I saw this Nissan GT-R parked at an AAMCO over the weekend. It's a nice car, but they have probably the most strict warranty rules of any car. I'm pretty sure just thinking about going to an AAMCO would void the warranty. Not to mention the fact that the cost of service for this car is ridiculous. This car requires you to use Nissan GT-R specific transmission fluid for it's special transmission. The price? $114.98 per quart! How many quarts does it take? Ten. It also requires GT-R specific differential fluid at $62.02 per quart. It needs three quarts of that. The labor cost for the fluid change is about $500. That's $1835.86 just to change the drivetrain fluids.