I have a recurring nightmare where somebody enters me to be overhauled by Chip Foose. Then after two weeks of thinking my car was stolen the tell me that Chip Foose has my car. To this I reply "oh God why couldn't it have just been stolen" so they take me to the garage to show what they've done to my beloved car and they lift the door and he has given it the world's ugliest two tone paintjob and put it on some 20 inch Foose wheels that look terrible and they show me the billet specialties steering wheel with flames on it and my fresh new leather seats that all say "FOOSE" and to top it all off they pop the trunk to reveal the 300 pounds of audio equipment the managed to shove in there. As I'm holding back tears of pure anger the filming crew tells me they want me to thank this man for what he has done to which I have to reply that I'm not an actor and that they are not tears of joy. Then I person who signed me up comes out from behind a curtain and says "surprise!" and I proceed to beat the living hell out of him while screaming "look what they've done to my boy!" And thats where I usually wake up screaming. Then I have to check on all my cars to make sure they haven't been "overhauled" before I can fall back asleep.

It was a nice trip up, got to see some family I haven't seen in a while now that we're vaccinated. Another 1000 mile trip down.

Despite looking completely indifferent in several pictures, she's still been the greatest expensive free dog ever.

After 5 months of being unemployed, that hopefully has ended. Feels good, as I feel like I was about to go nutty.

They seemed incredibly tame for dock cats.

And Vette picture:

I had an outside interview that went well. Afterwards, since I was close enough to the beach, I decided to peak boom my morning and cruise the beach. I put about 100 miles on my car today out of 500 miles since moving here.

@notsomethingstructural Hopefully it's not something structural.

Get a turbo tattoo.

My first vehicle I've hit 100k miles in(that I own), delayed by Covid and unemployment. Happily it's getting 60 miles a day put on it now, and I hit the magic number. It's tried to fight me the past 500 miles, and a tow truck driver tried to end my run with it yesterday, but it made it.

Also, this still exists.

There is a Chevy, BMW, and Mercedes dealer in Florence, SC.

If you want to experience a real life Zombie horde, go to New Orleans.

Other life tip, don't go to New Orleans. Go to Charleston or Savannah instead.

@davesaddiction The Bronco. The flares and wheel arches make me gag.

@rusty-vandura No, that was 2003, the end of the 2V. The nightmare is 2004-2008. All of the 3Vs up until 2009 can have cam phaser issues. It's why that gen can be had for relatively cheap compared to other full size trucks.

@rusty-vandura The 5.4 3V is a nightmare waiting to happen. Look into cam phasers. It's one of the worst engines that Ford has ever made.

With my current line of work, I'm in a lot of different vehicles. The Mazda CX5 is still the hill I'll die on. People who like them had early Covid symptoms as soon as the second gen came out. I still have yet to drive something as hateful, and I've driven several Nissan Versas at this point. I'll take a whirring rubber band pile of misery over the discomfort of a CX5.

How are the LBJs?

@dr-zoidberg It's a Toyota, it obviously needs nothing. Mine needs nothing at all. Definitely not a book worthy list or anything like that...

Liz Carmichael is smiling from her afterlife.

An incredibly overrated piece of garbage engine and a very simple 350.