I'm awaiting detailed pics but assuming the other three are as nice as the one I looked at, I will be driving up to NY this weekend to scoop up a set of Ronal LS, same as the 2002 below but the set I'm after has BMW center caps.

Hopefully this will help me forget about getting boozled on that other set, if nothing else it should provide closure enough for me to really go after that crook.

Here they are on an E30 w the center caps

I can't even come up with a title that describes my excitement. This is the prettiest one I've seen. I always thought I wanted a red one....SHA-WING

@davesaddiction now here I would have had 0 doubts about gold!

Check THIS out!

@kingt I almost always like the way Mazda's look. To me they always look less cluttered and more upscale than their competition.

A special thanks to @svend for sponsoring part of my detailing effort. The rest goes to simple green, the other products I had on hand, and my lower back.

Let me start with this. I don't think I'm a show my car at car show, guy. I really like detailing the cars but I hated it this time. Particularly the engine bay...I have never done more than wipe down the bay with some wet rags. I'm in there with simple green, a tooth brush, #0000 steel wool...the whole time thinking, "I drive this car, why TF am I doing this?" I put at least an hour or two into it and was not really happy with the results.

I was also just at it too long, I should have split it up over more days. I woke up from a nap at 3pm and was in the driveway until 11pm... It took me a while to get going. I have never been all thought this car... I don't think I have ever cleaned the rear glass, def not the seat, never taken the spare out...Every time I moved something I was like, gotta tie those wires up while I'm at it etc...

It was nice in that I did a bunch of little things that needed doing. Tucked some carpet back where it needed to be, glued some peeling seals...However none of this mattered for the show. I snagged a couple of judges from this guy with a 2002 Turbo, like "oh yeah this is awesome, that's my 1502 over there... " they followed me right over. I got to tell the story, and they asked about how it was setup, asked to see under the hood. I'm not quite sure what it is about a couple (or more) side draft carburetors, but I could see the slight "fuck yeah" look on both faces as they saw the carbs and asked about the cam. I could tell that my car wasn't what they were looking for but could tell they liked it.

My car got a lot of attention throughout the long day. I saw another longtime 2002 guy that I know, he recognized the car and told me that my inde called him to figure out the proper jetting for my setup! He also said he'd help with my quest for a 5 speed!

The weather was gorgeous but a little hot so I did a bunch of laps stopping for shade until my family showed up around 11. They took a lap and had lunch with me, then I stuck around until 2 to see if I won anything. Lucky for me, they started reading them off right at 2 and began with the "motorsport park" awards which is where my car was situated.

The categories to win were "longest on the road in completely original condition" A single, 60 year owner in an MG one that one, the other was "best restored to original condition" a V12 E type coupe too that one. There were two other "best club" awards. None for ya boy.

Anyway the actual Concours event was really cool too. The themes were pre war cars, Ferraris that are not red, and Bugattis.

I'm just going to dump em all out here. EDIT: forgot to say my favorites are the powder blue Continental and the Red Cooper. I wish I had a pic of the Motorsport Park field when it was full there were SO many cars.

I just received "The Golden Ox Award" at work which is more or less the "try hard/we like you the best for the year" award. Hit me with a trophy and a print out of everyone's nice comments that voted for me. I'm always thinking that I'm not doing enough... Who cuttin' onions?!

I ran out of clear when I was finishing the custom one I did, so the paint is a little better on the Matchbox car. However, mine is as close as you can get to my real car, flares/wheels and all.

I also managed an absolute F on cleanliness on this weekends oil change! First I dropped the plug and it splashed a little on the driveway. Then I have this little bucket that I hang over the filter housing for when I take it off. Yeah well I didn't use that and oil just went all over the engine and driveway. Used a whole roll of shop towels.

Also I purchased a bunch of copper M22 crush washers a while back, when I grabbed one for today I noticed it was really bent....Come to find out a whole fackin' lot of em' are real bent! I found one that was satisfactory, but there are only a few retailers that I have found with this weird size, and they all look pretty crappy/the same crappiness. Anyway, I put it all back together and took it for yet another rip before I put it away. I've been driving it a lot more consistently this year and it is paying dividends. That car hates to sit.

Here's everything pre-mess, looks like the ring on the driver's side light needs a re-paint.

I guess were doing weird pets. Here's this old loaf, Maurice.

I'm guessing this is going to be a "yes" for most oppos, but I'm still asking the question. Some of you may remember my most recent Ford Ranger a.k.a Red Ted, Teddy, Teddy Redson, Teddy Ready, Red Rocket Ted.

It's a 2001 Ranger Edge 3.0 V6, 5 speed, ext cab. I bought it with 67k on the clock and sold it to my FIL with 77k on the clock. I did a ton of work on this truck. Added power locks, keyless entry, remote start, car play, speakers, dynamatted the ENTIRE cab. Wheels, tires, bilstein shocks. Let an inde do the rear main seal to the tune of a lot. I even did a new lid for the center console out of wood and it came out really nice! I was just kind of "finished" with it and wanted a VW alltrack. I knew my FIL wanted the truck so I sold it to him.

Yeah well, I didn't like that Alltrack. It's gone and Red Ted still has 77k miles on him and he is just ROTTING in their driveway. I'd go into more detail but I don't want to get myself all fired up about it. I kept these feelings to myself until recently.

My wife brought up the truck during a discussion about something else saying how the battery was dead...I was like, "ya know what, I want that truck back. If he's just going to let it rot, I want it back or I never want to see or hear about it again. This is why I should have sold it to anyone else."

Very recently my MIL brought up to my wife her displeasure with it not being used. My wife got right int here like, "Yeah it's kind of breaking Tripper's heart to see it just sit and rust, I know he'd buy it right back!"

I'm not sure that were going to get my FIL to agree, but if he does it's pretty much a done deal for me. Except that we have no need or room for it...details.

Anyway, I would love to hear the cars/trucks that you lot would buy back. Also, thumbs up or thumbs down to re-buying my Ranger.

Did this grille with plasti-dip and it came out really nice!

@davesaddiction Yeah sms is fine, there are what I will call "active scammers" who are smart enough to ask for an MFA code via email but usually that means they already have you on the hook. I have not seen any straight up "man in the middle" intercept the message sort of things but you can bet they're on the horizon at least for high dollar targets.

I agree that the apps are kind of clunky. I use the gmail app on my phone for gmail MFA. I use the Microsoft one for my work 365 account, and then I use Authy for everything else. The nice thing about google/Microsoft is you just click a button to verify instead of reading and entering a code. The MS one even works from my watch.

@benjrblant authentication apps? They're even better for the really bad users.

@davesaddiction yea a lot of neat cars when you get to the 100k mark. Its the old $60k!

Everyone is here from out satellite offices and I'm trying to hide from them until my help desk associate arrives. So here's this post that is more or less a shit post.

Quick PSA @BicycleBuck 's post about PW requirements is making me want to say, "USE MFA IF YOU DO NOT ALREADY. Set it up for your email account at the very least. Check your non-savy friends and family too, make em set it up." It is the difference between "ha stupid scammers" and :

Ok there I said it. Now on to the shit.

I usually go for standard workout stuff, hip hop, or EDM during my runs. Yesterday I accidentally put on my "big jumps" playlist and it was kind of awesome. It's all mostly instrumental jammy stuff because this playlist is normally reserved for shaking off the jitters before going over some "big jumps" via snowboard.

@facw said in New password requirements are getting crazy:

Seriously though, just make 2-factor authentication standard and don't worry so much about password strength.

THIS. MFA is a pain to rollout but so is everything in IT. Concern for successful phishing attempts goes WAY down upon implementation.

@bicyclebuck Wow that is HELLA stupid. EVERYONE SHOULD USE MFA

@davesaddiction This is a great one, knew it would be close

@upcreekwithshitpaddle said in This or That 144:

I will never forget watching it on Top Gear.

BMW owes Clarkson a sold from that one, one of my favorite reviews.

Edit: When he lets his hands go you can just tell by the uniformity with witch that steering wheel spins back, "yeah, that's the good stuff."

@stuckmtb Hah, yes. My E90 took down 1qt every other fillup (800 miles or so) I think it held something like 8 quarts

@exage03040 1M. I had a deposit on one but several factors lead to me not pulling the trigger. Car was orange, I was out of the country when my car came up, and I would have been really stretching it to purchase.

I've since driven both and prefer the 1M looks and drive. I have not, however driven a CS. 1M is also one of very few cars that I would go for in black or white. I just really don't vibe with those burnt oranges, although I do think Valencia looks nice.