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One Year (and some) Later…

June 25th, 2010 · 240SX, Modifications, My Cars, Photos

Summer is fun for many reasons, but one additional treat is that each of my two cars have joined me in a summer month.

In July of 2007, the Miata came in and eventually changed my entire life.

Almost two years later, June 2009, the 240SX became my first huge car project.

I’ve had a ball ever since the Miata came into my life, but the 240SX has simply been on a whole other level.

One Year!

Earlier this month marked one whole year since the 240SX became part of our family. There’s been a lot of headaches and pain, but she’s also been an absolute joy that I wouldn’t want to trade for the world.

She’s been a good demonstration in how plans end up changing and you never know how things will go — I never imagined that less than a year in we would attempt the SR20DET swap that I wanted to do. Sure, it was going to happen… Someday. I never expected someday to be so soon!

Quite the change from only a year ago...!

She’s gotten new wheels, new tail lights, a whole lot of new suspension parts and a totally different engine in a year.

Place to get work done…

Despite all this work, she’s still got some haunting issues. My gauges aren’t working, save for the tachometer. There seems to be an electrical leech somewhere in the system, and we aren’t sure that the radiator fans are kicking on.

These issues have been keeping her from being a 100% up and running car, and she’s been limping around with them for months now. Down in Arkansas, there was pretty much no place we could take her with any sort of guarantee that anything would get accomplished.

So I knew we’d be waiting until we got to Washington, and I was hoping we wouldn’t have to take her all the way to Seattle, though I was prepared to if necessary. Lucky for us, we won’t have to go all that way…

We just need to get her to KaizenSpeed’s shop.

Great Visit

We got the recommendation for them from some locals out at Spokane County Raceway, which was what I was looking for. Not only that, but they’ve worked on SR20DET’s before. Yay!

So I made sure to email them, and one Saturday we took a drive down to visit the shop. I wouldn’t trust any shop that wouldn’t let me do such a thing, honestly — I need to know the people there, see the shop and get a feel for the place before I feel comfortable dropping off my baby for some work.

Well, needless to say the visit went very well, and it’s looking very good that she will finally be 100% by the end of the summer. :)

Edit 6/25: We met some new people who know Nissans very well and volunteered to fix her instead, so she’s over at their place being worked on now. No crazy long trips being towed, yay!

Besides…

I instantly love any place that lets me poke around with my camera for a bit! Hehe. Check out what I got to see on our visit:

I'm pretty sure all these supercharged S2000's are going to lead us to end up supercharging ours...

A very classy, race-prepped Evo...

Oh, and then this little treat -- An R33 Skyline. (GTS) Skylines make me happy now that I know their significance. (I didn't when I was in England and saw a few.)

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Friday Night Fun

June 22nd, 2010 · Car Event, Drag, Photos

We finally had a Friday without rain around here, hooray! :) That meant that Spokane County Raceway’s Friday Night Street Legal Drags went on without a hitch.

Interesting Cars

There’s quite the variety that shows up, apparently. Many are simply people out to have some fun racing, but there’s a few that use it as more of a testing ground than anything.

We got to meet the founder/owner of KaizenSpeed, a highly recommended shop in Eastern Washington. They were out running this Civic, which ran the 1/4 mile in less than 10 seconds:

She's loud and fast. And I *love* the use of purple!!

You’ll be hearing more about these guys later, though, since they’ll be fixing up my 240SX. ;)

Social Event

More than anything, it seems to be a fairly social event. Yeah, there’s racing, but you spend so much time waiting in line that you spend most of it chit chatting with the various other attendees.

It’s still kinda funny how some people don’t even realize there’s an entire track there beyond the strip… Or realize there’s racing like autocross out there.

Either way, I’m not out to “convert” people from drag to autocross, because if that’s your thing I think you should go for it! But I love being able to open up possibilities to people when they didn’t realize they were even there.

At the end of the day, I had way more fun hanging out with some cool people than I thought I would ever have. It’s nice to know that there are still good people out there in the Honda crowd yet!

Pictures, Duh

Of course, I go for the pictures first. I ended up socializing more, but that was okay because it got dark pretty fast… Pictures don’t turn out so well when the light goes away.

I keep trying to capture more of the atmosphere than just the cars going down the strip. Being around them while they’re lining up lets me do this in a way that’s different than the usual pictures that show up from this sort of racing.

A few people seem to think I’ll be able to sell the photos I take. I’m hoping they’re right!

Only cars like this can pull off flames so well, no?

In keeping with the flames motif, here's a Camaro with ghost flames.

We spent some time talking to the owner of this black S2000, who's supercharged. The Grand National was faster, though.

All that waiting... Interesting perspectives though, don't you think? I like the old mixed in with the new here.

The sunsets around here are quite stunning, and the backdrop it provided here is rather nice.

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Saturday’s Test & Tune

June 18th, 2010 · Car Event, Drag, Photos

After weather and other complications keeping us from having a Friday Night Street Legal Drag event to go to, we finally managed to get out to the track to watch some racing action!

Test & Tune

Saturday was the Test & Tune for the drag racers, right before the following Saturday as the start of the 2010 racing season. That meant there was a wide variety of cars out to get some kinks worked out, as well as drivers working on getting their competition licenses.

From what we stuck around to watch, nobody was being very serious about the runs… But I’m sure there were a lot of things in the works for many of the teams. Yeah, teams… It seems like it’s a huge, huge thing here. All I can really tell you is that I saw a LOT of money out there, but that’s what drag is. (Money!)

That said, there were some people out to have fun and some younger people out to get on the strip since Friday night had been cancelled. It was my first time at a strip with imports racing, ha. It’s been a very long time since I’ve gone to watch drag racing, that’s all. :P

The photography…

What I was not expecting was for the photography to be so different than anything I’ve done before!

You see, I’m working on creating my own photography business. I don’t really even have a name yet… I’m sure I’ll just call it CarsxGirl Photography or something. ;) But I want to get the word out here that I’m out there, I’m taking photos, and if you’d like one of you & your car racing, I’m selling them.

Lucky for me, I have my marketing husband who loves talking about my work, so I give him some business cards and he’s out there handing them out to show my blog and my work. I’m very lucky indeed in that regard.

Sadly, I didn’t do nearly as well as I’d hoped in taking photos… Some I really like, others, well, not so much. They’re very general and broad and not something I imagine people would really want. (But some I take for possible sharing in my posts, so I shoot for a variety of reasons.)

I now have a better idea of what to shoot for, and it’s nice because I can sit in the stands, use my larger zoom lens (55mm to 200mm, so it’s not much bigger…) to get some nice shots of the cars as they line up.

I did find out that I like taking burnout shots!

And that maybe I need to work harder on learning my old cars… I get easily confused by many of them, lol.

Anyhow, working on the business aspects of photography is scary, honestly. I still feel scared that I’m putting it out there that I’d like people to pay me for this! :(

My (better) photos

As usual, I took many photos, and liked a few. The ones that show up in my Flickr photostream are the ones that make the strict cut of “good enough to share publicly.” (I do keep any picture that turns out well, even if it’s not that great.)

Please, leave me some feedback!! I’m eager to know what people think of these, if you have any tips or tricks for shooting drag, or hell, even if you have anything to say on me selling photos… I need all the help I can get! Serious.

Oh, and would you ever drag your car? Do you do drag? We had to tell a lot of people that they’ll see us out there, but not on the strip…. Not our kinda racing. But we will watch!

Yes, this Mustang was racing. But I liked how it was parked here...

This particular Mustang was being driven by a girl. I think there was one or two other cars being girl-driven as well. Girls in racing is good. :)

If I remember right, this was one of the guys going for their competition licenses.

One of the shots when I was figuring out how to frame the cars. I think it turned out well.

One of my better burnout pictures. Now these were kinda cool to take...

And another nice burnout. I'm thinking I need to zoom in more on the cars...

It was also fun to get shots of the cars that picked up the front wheels on launch, like this Datsun 240Z.

I feel like this Mach 1 picture was my best set up from the day. What do you think?

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Hooray for Audi!

June 15th, 2010 · News, Racing, inspiration

June is an exciting month, because what I consider to be the greatest race in the world takes place then (oh, plus my birthday… hehe) — the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Race

Why do I say it’s the greatest race in the world?

You’d just have to watch it, but it’s brutal. Insanely brutal. It’s one thing to go out and race for a few hours. It’s another thing to even run the 12 Hours at Sebring. But it’s a whole other level to run the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

I don’t think it rained this year, did it? I didn’t watch the whole thing! But it usually does rain for part of the race, making it incredibly chaotic when it does.

It also asks a lot from the cars, as well as the teams. This year especially saw many, many cars not finish.

Audi’s Comeback

Last year was a very sad year for me — Audi didn’t win. Peugeot did.

It was then that I realized how much I actually cared about the race… I didn’t think I did so much. This year I started watching ALMS more and I very much enjoy the series. The 24 Hours is the big highlight, though.

This year I watched some of it on tv. I saw one of the Peugeots blow up live. I ended up recording the last three hours of the race, and watched it Sunday morning. By then, I already knew who won…

It was Audi, with a 1-2-3 podium sweep! Woohoo!!

It’s kinda sad how it went down — all four Peugeots running were out of the race by the end. Audi was hoping for a showdown between themselves and Peugeot, not for Peugeot to blow up. I think most people were hoping for that too.

Endurance Racing 101

Then again, I think the way it happened shows just how awesome Audi is at racing at Le Mans.

Peugeot pushed their cars too hard. Sure, they were fast, but the cars couldn’t take it for the entire race.

Audi, on the other hand, proved to be reliable. All three of their R15’s finished the race, leading Audi to win their ninth time at Le Mans.

I hope Peugeot learns from their mistakes this year and comes back next year better. I have no doubt that Audi will continue to improve. :)

Besides…

The Audis are so pretty, aren’t they? I think they are….

Sleek, beautiful and deadly. ;)

How they looked at Le Mans.

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Local Flavor — Meet SKRA

June 11th, 2010 · Car Event, Karting, Photos

I’m going to label this as a car event, but it’s not really…. Close enough for me though because it’s just as much fun as they are. ;)

First sample of local flavor

At the end of our first week here, we decided to try to get out and sample the local automotive flavor. I don’t think I was ever prepared for what we’ve found, and what I can’t wait to be a part of in the coming years.

I originally figured we’d have our first local event be a Friday night drag race. Every Friday night Spokane County Raceway runs street legal drags, but when we tried to go we found out that it was cancelled that particular Friday due to track conflicts with the bikes that were racing on the road course Memorial Day weekend. Oops.

While looking for the track, we came upon something I totally didn’t know existed here… Another, smaller track. For karts. Yeah, go karts.

Gold Cup Weekend

Turns out that Memorial Day weekend found SKRA, the Spokane Kart Racing Association, hosting the region’s Gold Cup racing.

While the track looks small, it's probably huge to a kart...

As we learned, this is one of several regional races that attracts a TON of people. So for our first karting event, it was a bit overwhelming. There were a ton of people, a ton of karts and lots of competition. Since nearly everyone there has been doing it for years, it wasn’t the best place to try and meet people when you knew nobody.

Quick intro

Lucky for us, since it was hosted locally some of the major local players were there. We got to meet Randy, who was awesome and took a fair bit of time to explain a few of the karting basics to us, like which karts are what and a million other things I can’t really remember. (I don’t do well when it’s all thrown at me at once, ha.)

I do remember that the World Formula Engine is probably what we'll start with if we get our own kart.

Even better is that they hold monthly events at this local track. Score!! The first one is coming up June 19th and should give us a better feel for kart racing.

We’re definitely going back because we’re completely interested in joining in racing a kart. When a kart we can begin with costs around $2,200 used, parts are a lot cheaper than on full sized cars and track days cost about the same as autocrossing… Well, I can’t wait to see if we can’t get a kart of our own. :)

This particular kart that was for sale was $2,200. Seems like a bargain to me!

In the mean time…

For now, we’ll be doing our best this summer to learn all we can about karting. We’ll get to know people and possibly start looking at karts for sale. I’d love to get into it, because it’s an extremely affordable way to go track racing!

Fortunately, we aren’t completely on the outside looking in without our own kart. Say hello to Fast Kart Indoor Speedway, local indoor karting! :D

After bidding farewell at the outdoor track, we went and found the indoor one. We went mostly to see what sort of parts they had for sale and if there were any other karts, too. (There were, but not the kind we’re looking at getting.)

What started as a scouting mission turned into a 15-minute karting session.

OUCH.

I found out that the indoor karts do have the same sort of feeling as the outdoor ones… Meaning sore arms after a while. I’ve never appreciated power steering so much before in my life!

Our plan of action -

For now, our plan of action is to go to the outdoor karting events to volunteer. :) I love working courses anyhow! Plus the photo opps will be fantastic.

We’ll learn all we can about karts, and there’s even a possibility of us getting to try some out… Woohoo! There’s also the chance of our volunteering compounding into practice days in the future.

After a warm-up period, these shifter karts were lined up for the race. (These definitely aren't beginner karts, it's something to work up to if you want.)

While we work on our outdoor kart knowledge, we’ll continue going to the indoor karting track and work out our arms. I know I definitely need it… It’s kinda fun anyhow because I can use my own helmet for karting now. :P (I’m also going to be getting a pair of Sparco karting gloves. They’re a must if I’m going to be doing this regularly.)

As if it couldn’t get any sweeter, the indoor karting place runs a tournament-style league race every winter. So even when the outdoor racing stops, we’ve got something to look forward to in the cold months. :)

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Moving Three Cars, Not So Bad!

June 8th, 2010 · My Cars, Random

I think the most common question we were asked when we were moving was how we moved three cars.

The answer’s pretty lame: Two drove, the third was trailered. As so:

The truck with 240SX being trailered. S2000 & Miata drove up here themselves. No issues!

It’s unusual?

I guess this is mostly because it’s apparently unusual for people to have more than one car personally. A family of three with three cars? Sure. But a couple with three? Huh? Why?

I like them. That’s why.

They’re definitely worth the extra bit of figuring to keep them.

Moved our stuff anyhow…

Really, it wasn’t anything extra to get the 240SX moved. We were already planning on moving ourselves.

You see, the government would have done it for us… If we wanted. But they wouldn’t have moved the 240SX. Either way she needed to be trailered up here. Why not do it with a truck with our stuff too?

So we got a 16′ rental truck with a car trailer, loaded it up with stuff, got the 240SX on the trailer with no issues and drove four days to get here. I’m definitely set for a while after all that. (Four days with no cruise is HORRIBLE.)

And now…

We’re here and done! But I’m working on figuring out how we’re going to get the 240SX to Seattle… I’m not sure there are any shops local to Spokane who are as familiar with the SR20DET as I’d like them to be to fix her up, so Seattle it is.

The way I’m figuring it is she’ll get towed there, and hopefully drive back… Not too much to ask, right? D:

I do need a new set of wheels for her, though. Whatcha think of these as an in-between wheel?

Bigger wheels would lift her up without excessive fender gap to make her more drivable... But I can't afford my VS-XX's yet, so...

Overall, not bad!

At the end of the move, I can’t say I wouldn’t do it again, though my husband was less than thrilled… :P

It should be a good few years before we have to think about it again, so that’s not a pending worry in any form. Other than the fact that we’re being moved to a new house in January. (Ours is getting renovated, so we’re doing a very local move this time!)

Then again, fingers crossed that our next move is out of the country… Definitely not doing that myself! ;)

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The Last ARSCCA Autocross…

June 4th, 2010 · Car Event, Photos

Before I get onto all the adventures of moving and Spokane and what not, I must first share the last autocross event we attended in Arkansas.

Bye-bye, ARSCCA…

It was definitely bittersweet. Many of the people who attend these autocrosses have become dear friends over the years we’ve been going there.

Many of them also encouraged me to get involved, and when I did, they cheered me on and gave me tips and help and pushed me on. I earned Rookie of the Year because I had people behind me the whole way, not because I was any good on my own.

I feel proud to have the friends there that I do, many of whom are damn good at what they do. :) For the first time, I feel like some of the people there will remain lifetime friends, just like many of the people from Myrtle Beach are very good friends.

The Day

Moving on, since I don’t like being soppy and emotional…

The day started off very lovely! It wasn’t too hot, it was absolutely wonderful for an autocross day in the middle of Arkansas in the hot season. It was fairly cloudy and breezy, and just lovely…

Until the storms rolled in.

The early hot season brings a lot of powerful storms, which often bring tornadoes. Just a fact of life there, you get used to it.

Sadly, on this particular day the racing was cut short because of some wicked storms, which made for a hasty good-bye in an effort to get home before the bad stuff hit. (I still don’t like hail. Who does?!)

But the pictures!

Despite a sudden end to the racing, I managed to get a fair number of pictures!

In fact, I kept more pictures from that day than I ever had before. I didn’t do a whole lot of panning, I just tried to take some well-lined up shots. It worked out pretty well, I think… Besides, people always love having pictures of them driving their car. :) (And I just love snapping pictures!)

Eventually I’m hoping to turn this into a business of sorts… Selling my photos to racers for a tiny price. Any suggestions as to what’s fair? I’m thinking one price for a print (where I’ll order & ship) and another if they’d like the original file itself, to keep & order as many prints as they’d like and what not… Please, help me out here! :(

Some Favorites…

Since I took a lot, I’m not going to post them all here. So you have to deal with my favoritism. ;)

Of course, they’re all up on my Flickr page if you’d like to see them all.

Alright, so I did a few panning shots... I like them!!

This was nearly my photo for the day... I just liked the composition. (And the car!)

No set of autocrossing photos is complete without at least one 911 shot.

I was excited to get shots like this of cars eating cones... I'm sure the drivers really weren't happy about it, though.

I was lucky enough to get a ride in this Miata. :) It was fun and fast and made me want race tires for mine... BAD.

And finally, the photo I ended up choosing as my "photo of the day." It was dry most of the day, then it rained and let up a bit, so a few more cars got to run... I love how the water got kicked up here. Shortly after this, the event was called off.

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& Then You

June 1st, 2010 · News

Being jobless doesn’t bode well for your car hobby, ha.

But…

I am here! Where is here? Here is Spokane, Washington. Apparently a town that loves its motorsports… This is fairly apparent after a fun-filled Memorial Day weekend.

Okay, I’m kinda lame and didn’t do a whole lot over the entire weekend, but Saturday was an absolute blast. I have a ton to share already. :)

First Things First

This is more of an update than a post per se, but I definitely need to get back into the groove of things and what better way than to start off June with what you can expect? Hmmm?

So yes, I’m back, kinda settled in and we’ve got internet. That means I’m back online, woohoo. :P It’s funny how I missed it, yet not having it was kinda freeing…. Ah well, I may limit my time a bit but I shall be around more than I was as a moving nomad. It wasn’t that fun to me.

Adventures to Share

I definitely have a few things to share in the coming weeks! Being away from writing actually brought me a ton of ideas, so I’ll be putting them into posts for your reading enjoyment.

There’s the moving up here, showing how practical sports cars can be and, best of all, the adventures that we’ve had here already and what’s pending in the future.

There’ll be local event coverage of all shapes and sizes as I sample all there is here. (Though I’m not so sure I want to get into the bike stuff, honestly…) That basically boils down to car spotting, go kart racing, track days and weekly drag nights.

I'm excited to be able to share some local coverage more frequently than just once a month!!

I don’t want to spoil too much, because I have plenty I want to get to, in due time.

This month promises to be a good one! :D

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Bone to Pick

May 28th, 2010 · Rant

For those who don’t know, the SCCA puts out a magazine for its members called SportsCar. It’s actually kinda cool, because it’s an easy way to keep up with everything going on in such a huge club.

I have a but, though… And that’s a bone I’d like to pick with them.

I really love the SCCA, I just have a tiny irk with one bit of the mag they publish, lol.

The Bone…

One of the features is called “First Gear,” which as they say interviews up-and-coming members. That’s all fine and dandy, but after a few issues I saw the same, unnerving pattern…

Almost everyone interview is 17-ish and has been involved in motorsports for the better part of their, oh, ENTIRE life.

Talk about disheartening.

So? What’s the deal?

Okay, I could be a bit whiny about it, but seriously. If you want to attract young people into racing, I dare say you don’t want to talk about how awesome somebody the same age is and how much better because they happened to be born into a family already involved in the SCCA.

For once, please, can I read an interview of another 22-ish year old, who started autocrossing locally with their chapter of the SCCA and is great but not super amazing? Why do all these people have to be on the verge of professional careers at 20 to be included?

Kinda De-Motivating, Really

For me, it’s always been a sore spot. People not much older than I am making huge strides in racing, when I struggle to pay for the few track days I might be able to get to, if I’m lucky, because I’m trying to make it on my own.

No, it doesn’t take away from what these kids are doing or have managed to do already.

I just wish the focus wasn’t completely on those who were lucky enough to be a member of the SCCA since they were born. Of course they’re amazing while they’re still so young. They’ve already been doing it for years themselves.

I bet if I started racing years ago, I could be a part of Club Racing by now too....? (Still a goal of mine right now!)

SportsCar, could we please…

Hear more about the kids who maybe aren’t so great? Maybe those just starting out? A tribute to the ordinary Rookies of the Year who may have only made it to local events? People who may be just as great drivers but haven’t gotten to find out yet?

I want to hear the story of the 18 year old who had parents who thought racing wasn’t feasible, he said it was though and made it so. The kid who works and goes to school and scrapes everything he can together just to get to races… Without the support of a family who’s been doing it for years.

Somebody who bootstrapped their way up into it. Somebody who could be a little bit more like me. :/

Is that too much to ask? Pretty please?

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Another Sad Look

May 25th, 2010 · Rant

Into what normal people think of cars, anyhow.

The Show

I’m sure you’ve heard of CSI:Miami before? Probably, haha. Now, whether you’ve ever watched it…. Who knows. And that’s not the point.

The point is, more so than the other CSI series Miami has cars, quite a few. Usually Lamborghinis. Which isn’t totally surprising, because Miami does have some expensive wheels rolling around… Any city with money like that will. (Even New York, where the parking spaces are stupid expensive. So one time when we were there, we saw an Aston Martin parked on the street…)

Anyhow, one day I caught part of the episode “High Octane” on tv, and what I saw disturbed me more than just a little bit.

Hello, It’s Called Research!!!

Now, it’s a given that for shows there’s some actual research done to make it somewhat credible. And I’d expect with the booming car scene that it wouldn’t be so damn hard to come up with some facts….

Apparently, it is.

Mind the poor quality, but just take a look for yourself here. No, please, you’ll see my point rather quickly. The first few minutes give you an awful glimpse into what they came up with. (Funny side note: the subtitles are Chinese, and I can actually read some of the characters and phrases… It’s freaky lol.)

If you’re into a bit more torture, you can watch the whole thing…. It’s pretty awful, honestly. Especially when you get to the tire bit and it’s all about the “Hoosier slicks.” Yeah, Hoosier makes slicks… Slicks are for racing… Used in drifting… BUT NOT ON FREAKIN’ ECLIPSES.

I’m sorry, but in NO way, shape or form should you EVER fashion the words “drifting” into a sentence and show an eclipse. UGH!!!!!!!!!

But Then…

And yet, they show actual cars. Real cars. Built cars. Not “tricked-out” cars, REAL cars. Like the RX-7. A few Silvias. And a Levin, right? (I’m pretty sure…?)

This was one of the cars shown in the episode....

So it’s like, even worse. You can’t go and show these actual cars that people or shops worked really hard on next to your stupid eclipse for the show. It’s WRONG.

Why? Because then all the non-car people go and think that, “Oh, that’s how it is!” And it’s not! It’s not even close!

Drifting is NOT a crime. It is NOT a stunt. It IS a real sport. For some, it IS a way of life. It is NOT something to be thrown around lackadaisically on a tv show full of people who are probably really uneducated in the field and now they think they know what those “drifting punks” are like.

It really irks me to the core when things like this go down. It’s wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Period. You should have done more research or, gasp, brought on a consultant to make sure you’re at least somewhat accurate.

And that’s not even getting to the final gem — the fact that the kid’s dad was siphoning off jet fuel and they were putting it in cars….???

For the record: Jet fuel is nothing more than slightly more refined diesel. You don’t fill up your car at the diesel pump, do you? No. So you wouldn’t put jet fuel in your car. It’s not high octane, it’s actually low octane.

On the flip side, I’m happy for the people who did get their cars into the show. It’s some nice recognition and a great achievement! It doesn’t take anything away from the cars, it’s the people who did the show that are……..

Kinda Frustrating

It’s pretty frustrating because there isn’t anything one can do about this. It’s there, it’s done and it’s out there — showing people some glamorized life that doesn’t really exist. Huh, I swore that was done before….

Oh yeah, the Fast and the Furious. Figures. That’s totally how it is, isn’t it?

I have to say, though, this irks me in a totally different way than that True Life episode. Because that was actually some dude thinking his life was something it totally wasn’t….

So tell me, what do you think when you see something like this? Does it irritate you? Or do you shrug it off?

In a way, I like that people don’t understand the lifestyle from the outside… But they have some stupid opinions I get tired of trying to fight.

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