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G20 vs. SS 15-August-2012

Aug

2012

Driving Impressions: G20 Van vs. LT1/M6 Camaro 10-August-2012 As a man who believes in balance, it’s probably no surprise that I have vehicles on opposite ends of the automotive extremes: An LT1/M6 Camaro and a G20 Conversion Van. Recently, the car was down for repairs, and in driving the van for a couple of weeks, ...

Putting C6 Corvette Wheels on Your 4th Generation Camaro/Firebird 26

Mar

2012

Putting C6 Corvette Wheels on Your 4th Generation Camaro/Firebird I’ll put all the technical stuff up front for those of you looking for the details you need to know for this wheel and tire combination. Summary: This is a set of OEM C6 Corvette Wheels on a 4thGeneration Camaro. The rears are 19×10” (+79mm offset) ...

Parking Lot Repairs 23-October-2011

Oct

2011

Parking Lot Repairs 23-October-2011 First and foremost, please know that the condition of your vehicle can affect the weather. For example, if you’re driving across the country in an old Chevy van, and your fuel pump is about to fail, regardless of the season or state you’re in, you should expect a light drizzling/freezing rain, ...

Hot Nights Hot Cars 06-August-2011 1

Aug

2011

Hot Nights Hot Cars 06-August-2011 The people come to the Cruises for the cars, right? Or do the cars just bring the people? Yesterday on my way to Pilot Mountain, I drove through a really heavy rain storm. And I think it did result in a smaller turnout. In any case, I took more pictures ...

The Family Garage 06-November-2010 1

Nov

2010

The Family Garage 06-November-2010 So lots of stuff has happened since I last had a real garage. When I was a kid, I practically lived in my workshop. I’ll dig up a picture of that as well. It was an old chicken coop that someone had cut swinging doors into, and Scotty’s ...

Hot Nights Hot Cars 02-October-2010

Oct

2010

Hot Nights Hot Cars Pilot Mountain 02-October-2010 I’m doing this a bit differently than usual, so this story will be posted with both the photo album and the video from last night… so I’m going to put in timestamps that go with the video, and write about the pictures all in one place. I guess ...

Birthday Weekend 04-September-2010

Sep

2010

Birthday Weekend 04-September-2010 Wow. Has this been a busy week… Ezra turned the big 1-0 on Thursday, and Sophie will be Lucky 7 on the 9th, so this weekend was earmarked to celebrate both! Saturday morning we hit Tanglewood Park bright and early (10am) and even had time to play on the playground a bit ...

Z28 Camaro 25-August-2010 1

Aug

2010

Z28 Camaro 25-August-2010 Where to even begin? Uncle Benny Huff set Ezra up with this sweet model early in the month… and last weekend we got all OCD on it and as of today, all the paint and glue are finally dry, and it is sitting proudly on our kitchen table! Ezra’s model paints had ...

Paint Shop 16-August-2010

Aug

2010

Paint Shop 16-August-2010 In preparation for building the Camaro model Ezra got from Uncle Benny, we dug up all his model paints, and somehow that turned into… painting, of course! Our inventory indicated that spray paint cans are on the shopping list now, as we want to paint that Camaro up right! I’ll just go ...

Shopping Pilot Mountain 03-July-2010

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2010

Shopping Pilot Mountain 03-July-2010 The car is still down so we shined up the old van yesterday and did the ‘shopping portion’ of the Pilot Mountain Cruise-In this time. And dinner at Soppers of course, goes without saying. Sophie picked the dessert, strawberry cream cheese cake. Thingie. Mmmmm. Cars cars cars. Love the cars! All ...