Went to Discount Tire this morning & had the good folks there balance & install Lady Babs snow tires on her MINI. I love that place, in & out in 30 minutes. They are the family tire store with good reason.

 

nice! sounds like you had a hell of a nice xmas. keep us posted on your presents to yourself and s2k

i like my local discount tires too. they have the same hunter mounter and balancer as tirerack so no worries of getting my expensive wheels damaged..!

your wife has the clubman? nice. they had a chocolate brown color and black roof at one time i was wanting to get. never happened though. cant remember why i didnt get the car. maybe it was because it only had one rear door on one side or something and it was on the wrong side of the car when picking up/dropping off kids.

 

if i was going to get another FWD car today, itd be a GK with MT. and id buy it for my son to use and for me to play with in the winter months to run errands. honestly that trip i made to the supermarket in the snow the other day.. i honestly thought the drive was fun in the GK. and if it wasnt for the stupid CVT i wouldve probably been a happy clam as when i had the 12 GE MT. thing about the Fit is it shines when i dont want to go fast to run errands. its a true grocery getter car in a good and fun way.

i just dont have space to park another car right now.

 

Her's is Hot Chocolate with a matching roof & brown leather interior. She is thoroughly bonded with her car. The one rear door would be an issue if we had to have anyone ride in the back seat. Bet that has only happened half a dozen times in 5 years.



They say it is more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. I believe there is truth to that.

 

hey thats the color!


yah, on the Fit at least, driving the slow car slow is more enjoyable. car does well as long as i dont push it. once i start pushing the car, it just disappoints me in so many ways.. but if its my kids car i wouldnt care.

 

We have all become spoiled by the HP cars deliver these days. Back when the earth was still cooling the SCCA kicked my Plymouth Fire Arrow out of the production car rally class. Why you ask, because it had so much HP. Geeze it had 105 HP, so over powered. LOL!

 

dang.. 105hp is out of this world! give the other a chance! haha

 

k, done with the house chores, going to relax a bit and start working the RC truck body. need to paint the driver figure too.. should be fun.

 

i wonder wat sony would call their walkmans if politically correct today..

walkperson

walkfattyisok

runfatty .. oh wait

walkelders

walkchallenge

 

walk410b

10char

 

the next office i will need to do some speed walking as there is no walk bridge between the garage and building.. and you knowz i will park on the very far end where noone wants to park.

 

I always park as close to the door as possible.

Usually because that means an end spot.

Except when I drive the S2000, then I park next to all the executives in the fancy guy parking lot, still seeking an end spot but hoping that nobody wants to ding their $60k+ car on my cheap old Honda

 

yah, if i can find an end spot id definitely take it too. will see how things go on Friday.. hopefully the garage will not be overly crowded.. and i can find an end spot far far away.

 

alright got the RC driver figure partially painted. since the truck is red, i decided to paint his helmet yellow.. and also his driving gloves yellow to match.

now he looks like he's about to go clean the toilets with his yellow rubber work gloves.. lol.. my kid and i were cracking up when i mentioned dat since i always wear yellow rubber gloves while cleaning our bathrooms.. lol

 

grilled sanma for supper.

 

wow, already thursday.. this wk is going by so fast.
no car action again today, basically a rubber stamp of yesterday.
few house chores, check work email, work on RC truck body, relax and listen to music.

a tad worried whether my GTI will start up tomorrow since it hasn't been started since last Friday and temps has been -7F to max 5F the last few days..

have a good thursday everyone!

 

alright, all done with house chores, checked work email, and now relaxing in my music room.

heading down into the basement in a bit to work on the RC truck driver figure. will start the body decals today too.

 

Been SO COLD the last few days. Next week doesn't look any better, miserable.

 

yah, latter part of next week we might be up in the lower 20F for the high.. my garage is 21F right now.. not very warm, but not crazy cold. come to think of it, where is my tiny space heater.. should be here today.

it was -1F this am now around 10F. a little too cold to wash my GTI. haha

 

I think today's high is around 5F for me, just absolutely miserable.