IT guy, weekend SCCA racer, new Subaru owner, Foursquare SU3, PSU alum, gadget lover, Apple user, all-around regular guy.
Keeping up with my plan to stay in contact with my sales guy… I made another call this past week. The last info I had was basically that a port delivery would come in around the 3rd week of September. They expected to have allocation info by the following week (this week). So my “plan” was basically to give some time for the dealer to receive the allocation info and call and see if my [...]
If 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 are technically suspension pieces – front and rear strut bars. The rear one actually goes inside the car and is visible in the trunk. The front one goes in the engine bay and connects the two strut towers [...]
With all of this talk of car shopping and driving, there are some things I have to take into consideration regarding my car… and if I were to trade it in. First is to take out anything I can remove… my Pioneer AVIC unit (which may make its way to Jen’s car down the road), subwoofer, amp, scanguage, etc. That’s the easy stuff. There’s a bit more that I’d like to take care of before [...]
For those of you that have not been paying attention (or don’t follow me on Twitter), the Glen Region hosted their second Solo event of the 2010 season yesterday (the first that I have been able to attend). The event was held at our largest available venue, the Seneca Army Depot airstrip. We typically expect fast, fun, and tricky courses here. Yesterday did not disappoint. Jen and I both went up and both raced. The [...]
It’s kind of funny actually. I had this whole “draft” post started and ready to just fill in some details an hit the Publish button. Then I saw it… And I’m still kind of… confused. I mean, I think it looks OK. Sort of. I don’t know. There are parts I like and parts I’m not fond of – but I don’t think I’d say that it’s awful. I just don’t know what to think. [...]
The era of the first generation Scion tC is coming to a close. FINALLY. Don’t get me wrong, I love my car – but it is a bit “long in the tooth” as they say. Needs replacing soon. Very soon. Thankfully Scion has that replacement currently in their pocket… to debut in just a couple of days at the NY Auto Show this year. Even before that happens there have been various teasers unleashed upon [...]
Look… Scion… we need to have a talk. From all of us in the Scion community to you in the Corporate offices – STOP WITH THE SILLY RSs ALREADY. Just replace the damn tC. Or at least announce the damn replacement. You’ll have a lot more happy customers than you will just dragging this out year after year. It’s nice that you still want to throw a few things our way – but this is [...]
My tC will be 5 years old in just a few months… seems like a long time. Certainly the longest period I’ve ever kept the same car – but that’s not incredibly hard considering everything else was practically a POS. So here is my quandary… I’ve modded the crap out of the one I have – at least to my liking. I will continue to do autox this year (and maybe into next year) and [...]
Jen’s parents took us out to dinner last night for her birthday (yes, it was yesterday). We had a nice dinner at the Olive Garden (I was STUFFED). Afterwards Jen and I decided to go over to Toys R Us… because, let’s face it, toys are awesome. I ended up finding a couple more tC diecasts. One of them was a small-ish Jada DubCity tC, in black. Not even riced up! Was a nice find. [...]
Either I need to find another insurance carrier or another car. My insurance has gone up… again. “Thank you for being a Progressive customer since 2004.” Now don’t mind while we raise your rates again. Thing is that I don’t think it is necessarily Progressive’s fault (I’m looking into it though, more on that in a second). I think a lot of it has to do with my car… which makes me sad. There was [...]
