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The Driver’s Seat

July 27th, 2010 · About Me

There’s something almost magical that happens to me when I get into the driver’s seat of one of my cars.

I feel calm, cool and collected, no matter what. I feel in control of my destiny. I’m relaxed and confident. Hell, I feel damn sexy sometimes… Especially driving around in my 240SX.

I wish I was that way all the time, but I’m usually not.

Why not?

I’m not sure what it really is about driving one of my cars that does it to me. It’s like being around one of my best friends, who just makes me happy and I’m enjoying the company so much that I just don’t care about anyone else.

Really, I don’t know why I care about people’s overall opinion of me so much…. It’s dumb. It’s like caring how others think of my cars — No, I don’t care about your opinion, they’re my cars and built for me and not for you. Go build your own if you have a problem with something I do. (I often get weird reactions to my Silvia front end conversion plans. But it’s happening, you better believe it.)

So often I feel like the shy little 15 year old that I’m trying to escape. A girl who was too scared to wear skirts or be girly. Somebody who’d freak at the thought of modeling, haha.

And yet, here I am. Telling my story through my own blog, working on trying to build a modeling career even though I’m 5′4″ and have lots of ink and piercings. Nothing in my life seems typical, and that’s what I love so much about it.

Breaking barriers

I’ve made it my personal mission to smash stereotypes and be unusual. Pretty easy for me, really.

Much of the time it doesn’t bother me how people perceive me. I have my weak times, though, when I do. When I wonder why I don’t feel accepted by any group.

I have too many tattoos to be a girly girl. I’m a girl when it comes to cars. I want to become a better racer but I also expect myself to be able to teeter around in five inch heels.

I think I’m a walking conundrum or, at times, a living oxymoron.

The Driver’s Seat

Nothing in my life matters when I get into the driver’s seat. I’m totally focused on what I’m doing, on being a good driving partner to my car.

There are no distractions, only the task at hand. Complete focus. Complete control. Complete calmness.

I am at my best when I am in the driver’s seat.

I just want to take that best and bring it to everything I do… My best lessons in life have been learned in my cars, in the driver’s seat.

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On Affording Cars…

July 23rd, 2010 · Cars I want..., Musings

Well, for a little while in my college career I was a finance major. I found personal finance, found I was good at it and figured I’d study it for a while. Chemistry wasn’t working out for me anyhow.

I’m not a finance major anymore, but I still manage the money. I have huge plans and projections that go out to the end of the year and a bunch of crazy stuff that it seems most people ignore.

Afford or not?

Personally, I feel like our biggest victory is not owing a single penny on any of our cars, both the cars themselves and their modifications.

It’s our hobby and we don’t borrow money to fund it, it’s all taken care of. Debt? Not here. The credit cards are just tools. (Mine’s my favorite tool, it gives me cash back. :) )

Most people seem to assume that we have car loans. I usually don’t even think of what people do or do not pay for cars. I tend to assume people have car loans, too, just because that seems to be how people are… “Car loans are a part of life.”

What if they weren’t? Nobody bothers to ask that. You need a car, cars are expensive, where else will you get the money? *shrug*

Digging the hole…

So most people have car loans. That could be good or bad, depending on whether the person can admit how much they can or cannot afford.

Then there’s the other side of people that I do NOT understand at all: building cars on credit cards.

Seriously. Any time I hear that I want to ask the person, “Are you absolutely freakin’ retarded?!?”

Then again, I guess it goes along the same lines as the silly pretest things they make you do for student loans… The “you do realize you have to pay this all back, right?” Um, duh. It’s a loan.

Odd Disconnect

I guess people have this disconnect with cards and real money. For me, spending cash is painless… Spending on credit? That’s my money, lol.

It’s even worse when the people talking about modding cars on credit don’t even have anything good…

Or the sad story of a guy with a heavily modified S2000 and the car ended up getting repossessed. Tell me how much that sucks making huge credit card payments for mods on a car you don’t even have anymore.

I just don’t get it. My husband’s the kind who would, and he’s tried explaining it to me but I just don’t see it as a viable option. It’s so extra expensive that the benefits are far outweighed by the costs.

I suppose it’s because I’m a horribly patient person sometimes. I can be patient as long as I have a plan. Americans, as a whole, are very impatient… Now, now, now!

Affording Better

Basically, I want to avoid all the debt I can, because I want to afford something better.

Better, like these pretties… Because I can. Easily. Just give me a few years to straighten myself out, find the career for me (I now have a good idea of that…) and start working on it.

My first Ferrari will probably be one of her. (Oh, and I LOVE this photo...)

I still do want a 360 Modena, but I want her to be my track-only Ferrari. (Yeah, that's also affordable.)

No mention of Ferrari is complete without my favorite 550 Maranello. :) This is the Ferrari for me!

I still want my first Ferrari before I’m 30…

Or maybe my 30th birthday, just to give my plans a bit of cushion. ;)

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The Things I Do…

July 20th, 2010 · Musings, My Cars

For my cars, naturally. ;)

Yes, I’m temporarily postponing my Formula D photos because I’m on…

Vacation

Yup, I took a vacation for the sake of my cars.

Why?

Well, part of moving is changing over car registrations and getting new plates, typically. Which we had no problem doing, getting rid of the last remnants of Arkansas does not bother me at all.

But changing to Washington plates wasn’t all that appealing. For one, we’re very used to only running a single plate. No front plates. I really do not want to put a front plate on any of my girls.

Washington also has inspections, and I’m pretty sure two of the three wouldn’t pass. The Miata’s questionable. It just sounds like too much of a headache, when being military we have other options! That’s where the vacation comes in.

New Plates

My parents happen to live in South Dakota. It’s not much, but there’s one nice thing: no taxes to worry about (unlike Arkansas, which would prevent us from just keeping those plates) and no inspections. Basically, no questions asked when I want to register my cars here.

So I took a week, decided to visit my parents and take care of my girls. Cost a few hundred dollars, but the S2000 and Miata are getting personalized plates and the 240SX is legally registered, no worries!

Yes, South Dakota runs front plates… But we won’t be. Since we won’t be driving in South Dakota, we’re banking on the cops not really noticing. Besides, I was told they’re liable to pull anyone without a front plate over… Um, yeah, even those who have plates from states without them. (Like our Arkansas ones.)

Worth It!

All in all, they are absolutely worth the “hassle” and cost of getting them their new plates.

Funny enough, while I’ve been gone my husband has been working on them a bit more than usual… Figures. But he’s been driving around our 240SX and getting her used to moving, and has no problems to report. Yay! :)

And if you were interested, South Dakota’s Black Hills really do have some great roads…. Even if it’s not totally car friendly, haha.

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Formula D Overview

July 16th, 2010 · Car Event, Drifting

I’m going to break my own Formula D coverage into two posts. This one, the first, will deal with mostly with my experiences of the day and all that jazz. The second, due up Tuesday, will deal with the photos I took and more details. (I hope. I’m still working on my organization…)

Evergreen

Formula D Round 4 took place at Evergreen in Monroe, Washington. It’s pretty close to Seattle but to the north. I’m kinda sad that we never actually saw Seattle on the way there, I’ve still not been…

Anyhow, the overall event was very well organized, as one would expect from an event as large as this. We didn’t have to pay for parking and I didn’t have to pay to get in. :) Thanks to a promo/giveaway that Drifting.com runs for every event, I got in for free with a special green bracelet.

Really, the green bracelet was cool… Haha. It’s what people with groups apparently get, even though I don’t quite understand it. I just overheard that bit. (Some guy at the will call asked about it before I got mine. I wasn’t expecting it!) When the people at the gate saw the bracelet, I was told to just go right in. How nice. :) (I felt really special all day, even though there were a lot of them… Ha.)

Drifting

When we got there, they were working on running the Pro-Am event. So it was quite the thing to show up and hear all the cars running right away. Before we even parked you could see the smoke from the tires as we got closer to Evergreen.

I’m really a huge fan of Pro-Am, since it’s the blend between some great drivers plus more of the grassroots aspect. Probably my favorite car in the Pro-Am was an ITB F20c tucked inside an AE86. My hubs talked to the guys later on in the day and apparently the ITB’s aren’t that hard to manage… (So he’s contemplating doing it to our own F20c again. It’s what he wanted in the first place anyhow haha.)

We didn’t watch too much of the actual drifting until it came down to the Top 16 and the ensuing elimination. It felt like a real treat to be there and see the level of skill that many of the drivers brought to the competition.

Booths

It felt like a fair when you walked through most of the place. There were booths set up everywhere, both for the teams and for vendors.

There was also plenty of free booty, something my husband was looking forward to. :) I do like the Nitto tire backpacks we got, they’re some of the small drawstring ones but fairly big for those and a nice material. I’m hoping the S2000’s Spoon wheel fits in one. (It killed the Yokohama bag we were using.)

Then, of course, there was being able to meet the drivers and get autographs. I only got one and my husband got one, but I got a couple of pictures with some of the guys I admire. You’ll have to wait a few days to see those yet. ;)

Overall

Overall I really liked the event and I’m definitely looking forward to going again next year. I know I’ll be wearing a different outfit, ha. Oh, probably sunscreen too…

There were a lot of minimally dressed girls running everywhere, as to be expected when cars are involved. I understand the booth babes and other variously employed product girls, but really most every girl was dressed the same. I felt pretty out of place. (And then realized that there were a lot of girls dressed in ways they definitely shouldn’t because ew, nobody wants to see your fat hanging everywhere…. So I definitely should be able to ha.)

Of course, the employed girls were mostly very pretty and easy on the eyes. Especially the Falken girls. :P Most of the NOS girls weren’t so bad either, haha. (Yeah, I checked out the girls, who wasn’t?)

Between my husband and myself, I think our favorite bit was being around the booths and just the overall festival feel to it. The drifting? Not so much. It seemed fixed, really. By the time we made it to the Great 8, I had a sinking feeling Tanner Foust was going to win…

And guess who won. Tanner Foust.

What really annoyed me was how many people would cheer for him and not anybody else. It seemed like people overall latched onto a familiar name and went with it, you know? I guess you’d had to have been there to get that feeling.

Especially when it came to the Final Four battle with McNamara… I was definitely one of a handful cheering for McNamara. But in my opinion, he was doing some amazing driving — I think he was the best chaser there was out there that day. Always still on the lead car, no matter how much smoke there was.

Anyhow…

We will be going back next year!

And this got so long so quick, so I’m saving all the rest for the next post. ;)

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Speaking of Modeling…

July 13th, 2010 · About Me, Modeling

A while back I had mentioned that I was going to give modeling a try. Since then, I’ve gone on a total of two photoshoots and have worked on learning quite a bit about the modeling industry. I figured I’d share what I’ve learned so far. :)

It’s not easy work.

First off, my respect for models has grown exponentially. That’s not to say that I never respected them, but you don’t realize how hard it actually is until you try it.

A photoshoot that lasts a couple of hours will wear you out. It’s tiring to keep posing, yet you still have to look as cute and fresh and happy as when you started. It’s not something you can keep up unless you’re having fun and you like it. I was actually a bit sore the next day after my second shoot. (My abs hurt, ha.)

It also makes you focus quite a bit on yourself. For me, it can drag up a lot of old thoughts of inadequacy and insecurity. I tend to over-scrutinize every little thing, and while I need to pay attention it isn’t something that needs to be super hardcore. Mostly it’s just keeping in good shape and clean and all the stuff you should do normally. (Only I can take it to extremes, especially when it comes to weight.)

So much for downsizing the closet…

Funny enough, I wanted to get rid of some of my clothes. Now I’ve come to realize that I need MORE clothes, ha.

Different shoots with different outfits require a wide variety of clothes I just don’t have, such as different color bikinis or nice dresses or any number of outfits. (Certainly matching undergarments, which I have little of, I hate to admit.)

So in the past month alone I’ve stepped back into the clothes shopping ring and gotten a few things with modeling in mind, and I also take it into consideration when I go to buy anything else. It’s funny doing it, but it helps make sure that I feel good in what I get and that it’s all very functional. (Ha! I’m even into function when it comes to clothes…. Lol.)

But I still search for good deals, just as I do for my car parts. :) I easily spent more on the 240SX and Miata in the last month than on clothes for me, no worries!!

Still hoping for car work!

My first shoot to get my portfolio started was with our S2000, so that was definitely car-related haha. The second shoot I did was a studio shoot, so the closest I got to cars was CarsxGirl’s current facebook profile picture, with a cute race-inspired outfit.

I’m planning on a lot of work with another local photographer, ranging a fair bit but incorporating some car work and also some bike work. With my tattoos, I’m pretty well suited for modeling with Harley’s, ha. I don’t mind though, because I adore bikes. I’m still working on getting one of my own…

Not sure where it’ll all go, but I’m working on finding my own place in the industry, which is all I can ask for. I used to think that my tattoos would hold me back from too much, until I realized that they really just set me apart… And when it comes to modeling, being different and having a great attitude are what it boils down to.

One thing I’d like to try is becoming an HIN girl, though I’m not sure how that’ll all work out… And while import models have a pretty bad rap, I’d like to think that wouldn’t stop me from being one and showing how different some girls are.

After all, I seem to love breaking stereotypes… Why not take it to another level? :)

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Car Burnout…?

July 9th, 2010 · About Me, Random

And no, I’m not talking about this kind of burnout…

I mean the kind you get when you’ve been doing something for too long at too crazy of a pace and you just can’t seem to keep going anymore.

Say what?

It’s not that I don’t like cars anymore, definitely not! But it’s been such a crazy time with them that other areas of my life have been, well, somewhat neglected.

As much as I hate to admit it, I like being girly and shopping for clothes and painting my nails and all sorts of other things. And when I wanted to get into modeling, the goal was to get in with car-related shoots… But it’s all things I need to work up to. (Which means doing other things for now.)

When I got into cars, I kinda cut that out… It worked for a little while, but certainly wasn’t going to last for any long period of time.

I think somewhere is my happy car medium, where they aren’t neglected themselves but they aren’t the only thing I ever do.

Slow down?

I guess part of me wants to slow down, but I definitely have been doing that and it seems to be working.

My 365 project has been harder now than it was before with the car tie-in. I feel like I’d want to explore other bits of photography, but I also have been doing so good with the car thing too so it’s hard to want to move away from that. I managed half the year so far, why not keep going, right?

I mean, a photobook half of cars and then half of everything else would be kinda weird… So I’ll probably keep going with that. (And I haven’t missed a day yet! *crosses fingers*)

And the cars have definitely gotten work done. All of them will have gotten new bits and pieces this summer, most notably the S2000 (Spoon wheel & Bride seat) and the 240SX (working! and new wheels/tires) while the Miata only got a replacement wheel and new tires. (But 180 tread tires! ;) )

As for the blog…

I plan on continuing the blog, how could I not? I’ve gotten a great positive response from people and will continue to keep up my twice weekly schedule. It’s almost been a full year for this blog anyhow!

Tomorrow I’m getting up nice and early to meet with some friends and go to Formula D’s round four, so that’ll be exciting. :) I’m looking forward to sharing my experiences from that!

But I also think I may go for more of the car life aspect than just the cars. Because really, that’s what my life is… Cars are so ingrained in it that I can’t separate them out, they’re just there.

They also aren’t everything, though. It may work longer for some people, but I don’t think I’m one of them. I’m not giving up, but I am scaling it to a more long-term manageable level.

Definitely stick around, I promise to keep trying my best to have interesting things to say and share. :)

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The Pursuit of The Impossible

July 6th, 2010 · inspiration

Anybody who’s watched any length of television lately has to have seen Toyota’s commercial for the LFA. Even if you don’t watch tv, if you’re into cars I’m sure you’ve seen it.

Just for review, to make sure we’re envisioning the same thing:

Well put words

For once, I’m not mad about seeing the same commercial a bunch of times… Really, who can get sick of seeing, but more importantly hearing, the LFA?

Not me!

But what I like is when it talks about the pursuit of the impossible… The pursuit of perfection.

Maybe the LFA is perfection to some, but the way the commercial puts it, it certainly isn’t to Toyota. And it shouldn’t be.

Perfection is too much of a moving target for anybody to ever hit it. I don’t think Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini or even Bugatti feel that they’ve hit perfection yet.

Always more

There’s always another level to achieve. When you hit one milestone, you may celebrate a little bit, but then you work on achieving the next level.

Each one of us is following the same path as Toyota — the pursuit of perfection. We all just have different definitions of perfection.

There won’t ever be one perfect car. Likewise, in racing you’ll never feel like a turn is perfect — perhaps good enough to win a race, but you’re always pushing for the next level, the next achievement, the next possibly perfect lap.

Sure, a novice like me is far, far, far from perfect, probably far from even worrying about perfection. But it’s still a target to aim for, a goal to aspire to reach.

One level and onto the next

I don’t think I could have guessed I would actually make Rookie of the Year when I started autocrossing.

No way was I near that good! Not when some of my friends, even my husband, didn’t even make it a whole season as a novice before moving up into the real competition.

I, for one, knew I would spend my entire season as a novice. My goal was to get Rookie of the Year.

And I did it. I still don’t know how. I know there were a lot of better racers out there than me.

It was achieving a new level, though, and as much as I celebrate it even now I know I need to strive to achieve the next level. I’m not totally sure what that is yet, but that’s okay. It’s a pursuit. A chase. A moving target. I’m just taking aim right now.

Track Days, then Time Attack

I’m planning on doing as many track days as I can over the next year. It’s going to take a lot out of me to just try and come up with the funds to do such a thing, as I’m pushing myself in my other pursuits as well. (Both writing and photography.) If necessary, I’ll find some job that works with all this.

All I know is I want to pull this off. The stakes are set, the die are about to be cast and I’m gonna need to hit the ground running as best as I can. I’ve got very little to lose, but a lot to gain.

After a sufficient number of track days, I’ve got my sights set on Redline Time Attack. I’m not sure how I’ll do it, but that’s the direction I’m going in. Autocross is incredibly fun and I still encourage people to start there if they’ve never done anything before, but I want more. More turns. More speed.

More chances for the perfect lap.

I’m not sure I can pull it off, but I’ve never been sure of what I’m fully capable of either. It’s time to start finding out.

This is the pursuit of the impossible. This is the pursuit of perfection.

Well…. Okay, maybe it’s not. But it is my pursuit for better developed racing skills.

Hope you’re here to share the ride with me, it’s gonna be interesting.

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First WA Autocross

July 2nd, 2010 · Car Event, Photos, Racing

Of course, the autocross coverage will never stop for me. :) I may not always be racing at the events, but I still love to go out, see the cars, support friends and take lots of pictures! Autocross is a great place to find like-minded car people — those who realize that if you really want to race, there’s definitely a way to get out there and do it.

Same, Yet Different

The autocrossing here is quite similar to what I’ve gotten used to over the past few years. Really, it’s not that much different anywhere… Bunch of people, cars of all sorts and a bunch of cones. Good times all around!

It’s different, though, because it isn’t run by the SCCA here. The rules and classes are pretty much the same, and some of the people here even go to the Nationals in the fall. But it’s run and organized by a local motorsports club. Fine by me, really. As long as I get to keep my number and class! (#37 CSPL.)

We’ve Got an “In”

Here, though, it was nice, because we went with some friends. The people we met at the races one Friday night, the ones who are fixing my 240SX, people who autocross too! Go figure, right?

It’s kind of nice, because one of the hardest things for us was leaving all our autocross friends behind. When we started going, we knew absolutely nobody. Over the few years we spent in Arkansas, we went every month like clockwork and slowly made friends. When we left, we were usual fixtures at the events and always had people to see and talk to. (And had begun being good helpers to the new people showing up, my favorite part!)

Basically, I’m super glad we have my 240SX, since we can legitimately hang out with all the Nissan people we seem to get along well with here. ;)

Camera Workout

Naturally, my camera was in tow and due for a good workout. I’m still getting used to drag, but autocross was where I developed my love of car photography, so it feels natural to me.

Once I know where I’m set up for the day, I’ll figure out the best plan of attack for the pictures and where the cars will be coming. After that, it’s a matter of getting my settings right and knowing what I’d like to go for.

I think I will autocross here with this group at least once or twice, there’s a lot more space for the cars and the speeds seem faster. It’ll be good for the Miata to get back out there, plus me… I’ve been on an “off” time for seven/eight months now. (Mostly playing photographer, which I love too but is no real substitute for working on my skills. I know… I’m bad. :( )

Pictures Are Worth…

Mine aren’t worth much, LOL. While I have myself set up in case anybody asks anymore, it hasn’t gone anywhere.

Not that I was expecting it to, ha. I do get compliments yet, so that’s always good to hear… I don’t mind not being anywhere yet though, because I’m still absolutely working on my skills. (Sadly, it was just the other day that I started messing with manual lens focusing. Bad, I know, right?)

Here are some of my favorites, though, from the day:

My weakness for these cars is well known by now, isn't it?

I think nearly all, if not all, generations of MR2's were present...

Should be obvious that this IS what she does. I was told this is a Nationals car.

I had no idea these little cars existed until we came up here, and now I've seen a few. Our friends run their own NX2000 in autocross, but the day before the clutch on their car went out.

No autocross anywhere is complete without competing Miatas!

These cars were another autocrossing first for me, but they looked great out there!

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Networking at Events

June 29th, 2010 · Car Event, Drag

If you’ve ever read anything about networking, you’d know that the possibilities for networking are everywhere.

Personally, I like networking with people at car events — we already have one big thing in common, the cars. It then makes it easier to connect.

Drag Races

The Friday Night Street Legal Drags makes this pretty easy… The people spend a lot of time sitting around in line waiting to go, spend very little time actually running and get right back in line to wait again.

We can go, sign the insurance waiver, get a bracelet and walk around the cars to our hearts’ content. This gives us plenty of ways to interact with the car owners.

For me, I always carry business cards for my blog. It also has the url to my flickr account. Why? Because I’m always taking pictures and like letting people know where they’ll show up.

Unexpected Connections

Perhaps the best part of this networking is the variety of people we meet.

In Arkansas, we had friends who were doctors, surgeons, lawyers, mechanics, students, business owners, bankers, auction buyers and real estate agents, just to name a few.

We got lucky one Friday, we ran into some people who had a very nice 180SX out.

The pretty car that led us to meet some really cool people here.

Funny enough, the guy knows a ton about Nissans… And offered to take a look at my 240SX.

Instead of sending my car a couple of hours away, she’s only twenty minutes away, spending some time at a house with two other Silvias. One is the car we saw that night, the other is an S13 convertible with her own SR20DET, and belongs to the guy’s wife. :)

Oh, and the money we’d spend at a shop for them to try and figure out what’s wrong? Not happening. We’ll spend a small fraction of that to get her working.

You never know…

Basically, you never know who you’re going to meet on any given day. There’s a huge variety of people who go out to races, and you can pretty much find a person who does just about anything.

While I try to network to promote my blog and my photography, it’s always handy when something like this comes up and I find somebody who can help me out with a problem I’ve got.

My only issue is figuring out what I can offer in return…

Yeah, I definitely need to work on baking more! ;) Everybody loves cupcakes, right?

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The Sunday News: Long Pause Edition

June 27th, 2010 · The Sunday News

Hey all! It’s been a while since the last edition of The Sunday News!

So this week, I bring to you…

Long Pause Edition

Yeah, it’s been a bit since my last update! Since the beginning of May, actually… Yikes!

Well, if you weren’t keeping up, we’re in Washington state and pretty settled now. It’s been nice, and since the weather’s finally decided to be summer, it’s great! :)

We literally live a few miles from the local track, Spokane County Raceway. Every Friday night during the summer they have open drag racing, they do NHRA stuff on Saturdays and there’s various track events going on.

Most notably, there’s Fridays at the Track. I’m hoping to get my husband and I signed up for the August date! The Miata will be back out, and the S2000 will go for the first time.

Lots of… Drag?

Because every Friday night has drag racing, I’ve got a lot of local drag coverage. But don’t worry, it’s not all I’ll ever do, nor will I be drag racing any time soon. It’s much, much too expensive for me!!

A lovely, old Camaro SS. I see cars like this all the time, not just at the drags...

If it does get to be too much, let me know. I’m more into showing the variety of cars that show up anyhow. Gives me new cars to take pictures of and a feel for the local flavor.

Lots of Old

One thing I’ve been getting used to is the large variety of old cars that are up here, not just at the races. Any time we go downtown for anything, and we drive through often, we end up seeing a gorgeous old car or two. It’s awesome.

Seriously, if we stay here for any length of time I’m going to end up buying myself an old muscle car or something….

I really want a ‘Cuda.

Lots of Crazy

And I’m pretty crazy sometimes, mostly because I’m not doing much outside of the house. Staring at the same walls all day really gets to you…

I’m also working on changing schools for something totally different. Once it’s underway, I’ll share. It could mean big things for the blog, that’s all I feel like saying right now. ;)

Next month, July, I’ll be going back to South Dakota for a week… Hoping to see interesting stuff while I’m there and relax a bit. So I’ve been thinking about that. (Yes, there are nice cars in that whacky state!)

I’m working on some modeling, too, but I planned on talking about that more a bit later on.

My Babies

My cars are doing great, actually! Everybody’s getting some new things…

The S2000 got the Spoon wheel we bought before leaving Arkansas, and she’ll be getting a new driver’s seat in the next few weeks… (Bride.)

The S2000's lovely rare JDM piece.

The 240SX is being fixed by some new friends of ours, and she’ll need some new wheels soon. Getting her fixed is one thing, the bigger wheels will be needed to get her moving more often!

And finally, the Miata’s getting new tires! :) Those should be here tomorrow, I hope! She’s also getting a brand new RPF1, because one was bent. (Not the damaged one, that just needs to be painted and I’ve been lazy…)

We’ll also see about getting a cage made for the 240SX, as well as something worked up for the S2000 so we can get a harness in the car.

And a chance…

I’ll get to go to Formula D this year! :) Not 100% sure yet, but I am hoping… It’ll be great if so! I’m sure my “coverage” won’t be that great compared to the big blogs, but if I do go I’ll do it from what you’d experience if you went, too.

Why? Because I’ve never been, and wouldn’t you like to know what you’d experience just being a normal person, not some big media name? That’s my thought, anyways.

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