Yearly Archives: 2007

I Polished My Headlight

In a few hours this afternoon i changed my driver’s side headlight from this to this:

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VW Dumbing Down For America

Apparently, American’s don’t want to pay for the high-tech gizmos that often come with Dubs, so they’re getting cut by the CEO who wants to lower prices so Volkswagen can compete with Toyota [via Autoblog and Volksbloggin.com].
Boo. I love my auto-dimming rear view mirror, and heated side mirrors, and Climatronic, heated seats, auto-down and [...]

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Global Warming Is A Myth

Gas up the W12 and drive loops around the mixing bowl. Because it doesn’t matter. Meteorologist Dr. William Gray calls Al Gore’s global warming movement garbage: the Earth is on a warming and cooling cycle, and the impact by humans is too small to have a global effect on the Earth [via Virginia]. [...]

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Sixty Thousand

I hit 60,000 miles on my car today.

About half of those miles are mine (i bought it pre-owned).
I’ve owned it for two years and eight months. Which makes about 11,000 miles per year, or under 1000 per month.
I’m about half-way done paying it off.
The only modifications done so far are lowering springs, which my [...]

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VW Meet At Kingstowne

Monday night cacapino, Gudo, and i drove up to the VW meet at Kingstowne Towne Center in Springfield.

We met Brian and rolled in to the Chipotle parking lot—two MkIII Jettas and two MkIV GTIs.

Met a bunch of dudes, and saw some pretty nice rides. The NGP Audi A3 definitely stood out as the nicest—to [...]

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