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Summer Has Begun
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / May 6, 2013The official start of summer can be one of a few things. It could be the first proper wash and wax of your car (if you bother with that sort of thing). It could be the first day you are able to comfor...
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Summer is Pretty Awesome
By ack154 / in The Life of Me / June 11, 2012This month in particular is turning out rather awesome as well. Last weekend of May was my first Club Racing SCCA event (as a specatator only, unfortunately). I had a ton of photos from that event....
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Oh, That’s Where I Left That
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / May 4, 2012Turns out I still have a website. Whoops. I guess there have been some new things since I last posted something here. So I uh, got married. Drove across the country to Las Vegas. Planned a wedding ...
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2011 AutoX Season Summary
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / October 16, 2011Going into any autox season is usually a pretty exciting time for me... and with a brand new car that (at the time) was just 6 months old, there was a whole other level of anticipation involved. I ...
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2011 AutoX Event #2 Wrap Up
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / May 16, 2011It's been 2 weeks since we closed up the first event of the season. It'll be about 5 weeks until we hit event #3 (6/19 at the Arnot Mall). And let's hope that after those 5 weeks, we get a little bit ...
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2011 AutoX Event #1 Wrap Up
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / May 2, 2011It's a new season. With a new car. And.... not much else has changed. Well... one other thing has changed. We lost a great competitor and friend a couple weeks ago. And the event was not the same w...
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That’s Not Possible
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / August 2, 2010If you've read anything here recently, you'll know I'm still in the process of tearing my car apart to get ready to trade. At least the interior and some other bits. Two of the things I've removed ...
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More New Car Thoughts: AutoX, Tires
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / July 1, 2010Going back to my previous post for a few minutes, I've been looking at a lot of different specs and stats on each of the cars. I've actually now started getting beyond manufacturer specs and looking a...
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About This Mini Thing
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / June 22, 2010If you've read ANY car website or blog in the last few weeks you've no doubt seen Mini's "challenge" to Porsche to race them at Road America. The idea was the race a Porsche 911 Carrera S against a Mi...
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Why Not Me?
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing, Random Thoughts / May 24, 2010Forgive my ramblings here... but whenever I think of what I want to be "when I grow up" - this is what always goes through my head. They say that if you try hard enough, you can have or be anything...
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