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Sometimes The Worst Ideas Are The Best Ideas

After seeing the Honey Roasted Plantersmobile in Florida last week, I decided I’d have to get a donk on my return to Sacramento. Thanks to the magic of the internet, doing so turned out to be remarkably easy. Now I just need to pick a candy theme to paint down the side of it and I’m set. And of course, y’all are invited to come down to go cruising.

∞ 2012-01-08th

The Suburbs

∞ 2012-01-09th

Marlboro Smooth

Possibly the best feature of the Eldorado is the free box of menthols that came in the ashtray. Or the custom aluminum gauge cluster. Now if only I could figure out how to get the speedo or fuel gauge to work.

∞ 2012-01-10th

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

∞ 2012-01-16th

Rabbitguts

∞ 2012-01-26th

Upgrade

Mere hours after Superbite gets the upgrade from leaky street tires to a set of used dirt tires (from a guy who only ‘pounded pavement’ with them) she’s already got her eyes on something bigger and better. She’s on 33s now, assuming I can get the drivetrain to handle it should I be going for 37s or straight to 42s?

∞ 2012-01-30th

Unstuck

And of course the first thing to do with new tires is to get them stuck in the mud. Note to self: figure out which of the many unlabelled positions on the transfer case shifter is 4x4 low locked before stepping into the goo. Had a fun hour of digging with the generous assistance of a dad out with his ~5 y/o kids who cheered from the roof of their Subaru wagon.

On the way back to civilization we stopped at the dump to drop off the traction carpet that we used to get out (just an excuse for a trip to the dump really), and discovered that Superbite with her 270hp Chevy SS396 LS3 weighs in at a healthy 2640kg (5820lbs), which according to the Google is the same as a fully cargo’d 2012 BMW 7 ActiveHybrid at 455hp, or a little bit more than two S2000s stacked on top of each other (480hp if you combined them). Whoa, no wonder it accelerates like a baked potato with a death rattle.

∞ 2012-01-31st

1957 Eldorado Biarritz Convertible

Gah. Probably the best thing I saw on a ~9hr trip to Vegas. DO WANT!

On a related note, I can’t believe how much they changed car styling from year to year back in the day. I know it is economically unsustainable, but it seems difficult to be excited about modern cars in the same way as people must have looked forward to each new year of the American 50s.