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Note: If you knew Jerry, please add to this memoriam by commenting. Feel free to share your “Jerry Stories” too. If you don’t want to login or create an account here send me an email “cg at goolsbee dot org” and I’ll add it in for you. I know a lot of folks in the … Continue reading “Some thoughts about the passing of somebody I knew… Jerry Nell, Jaguar Driver.”
It was the best of days (we zeroed both timed segments!), it was the worst of days (my camera batteries died and it rained or SNOWED(!!!) most of the day!) As such dear reader, you’re stuck with very few, if any car photos. You’ll have to deal with whatever meagre images I feed you. Sorry. … Continue reading “2008 New England 1000: Day 1, Monday. Woodstock to Lake Placid.”
My new exhaust arrived this week! Above you can see the new parts laid out next to the old parts. I hope to put the new ones on the car later today. If you recall the exhaust started making nasty noises last year on the GTTSR. We could see a crack on the driver’s side … Continue reading “Update on my Exhaust: Team CJ fumbles another one.”
Well, it has become something of a tradition for me to spend my Super Bowl Sunday wrenching on my car. I’m not really a football fan, and to be perfectly honest if New York City & Boston somehow vanished tomorrow I wouldn’t miss them, or their sports teams. So I work on my car, or … Continue reading “How I Spent My Super Bowl Sunday”
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and witnessed the end of the Cold War as the 80s became the 90s. It was truly a great time to be alive, because the cause of the western Democracies was validated by the collapse of the eastern Communist states, especially the Soviet Union. America was the … Continue reading “Good Guys and Bad Guys”
In Missoula MT at the moment. Had a great drive, over Stevens Pass on US2, then WA SR28 to Quincy, then 281 to I-90. Then 60-some miles of I-90 to Ritzville, then through a hazy, smoky Palouse along WA SR 261 to US 12. Lunch in Pomerory, where the haze and smoke from a nearby … Continue reading “Day One: Arlington to Missoula”
Several weeks ago I drove our rarely used pickup truck to work. It is a Dodge RAM 1500, so it makes a reasonable substitute for your average SUV; lumbering brick-shaped, V8 powered, gas-guzzling Detroit stupidity. Fine for hauling lumber, hay, and horses (what we use it for really) but about the worst vehicle imaginable for … Continue reading “Finally… result of my mileage test.”