Teh Car Blogz

If you’ve been reading this site (all three or four of you!) You’ve probably been wondering where I’ve been.  I’ve disappeared into the ether, much like Elliot Spitzer’s political career or coke around a frat boy.  Well, I come to you today from the inside of my Volkswagen in the parking lot of Wake Technical Community College, in beautiful Fuquay-Varina North Carolina, on this pleasant rainy Friday afternoon.  This is the American Dream, folks: Community College on a Friday Afternoon.  In the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.

But I like to figure myself as an optimist…

But I like to figure myself as an optimist.  I’m a “GLAS half full” type of person.  (Anyone catch that post-WWII German Car Maker joke?)  There’s a bright side to everything.  At Wake Tech, for better or for worse, you can’t help but do a bit of car-spotting.  Since this is half educational and half vocational college, there are a lot of future SAE-Certified Master Mechanics getting their needed diplomas here.  Some will go to work on BMW’s for $120 an hour.  Some will continue to work at Burger King and drive their bondo-slathered Honda CRX’s for years to come.

There are some neat cars to be seen.  When I pull into the back lot in the morning before my 8am math class (Hooray!)  I park in a small lot that usually contains 2 different MkIII Toyota Supra Turbos, one with a bunch of HKS goodies.

I walk up the pathway to the “Engineering” Building and pass by a teacher’s screaming yellow C6 Corvette targa-top, the bizarre electric-conversion MkI Rabbit pickup, and a ‘94 Ford Aspire that’s half rust and half Korean.  Oh, and a pimped-out and jacked-up Chevrolet Colorado (seriously.)

Then as I walk back out to my car after an hour and forty minutes of math, I usually almost get run over by one of three types of cars:

1) Toyota Celica GT Action Package

These ridiculous little insectoid cars seem to be a local infection at Wake Tech.  I almost die quite regularly when a silver GT (Automatic, of course) with an obnoxiously loud exhaust wails on it down the access road to the parking lots.  Urgh.

2) Some Jacked-Up Jeep Thing

I know all about the AMC straight-sixes’ legendary reliability.  I know the Cherokee is a cult classic like the Wrangler.  But the glass-packs sound like someone with an iron lung on a treadmill, and you accelerating at my body with those gigantic unstable tires is… un-nerving.  Please cease and desist.  And hey, your Jeep is clean - put the doors back on.

3) Some Friggin’ F-Body

Hey man - all those high school jocks with bad grades need to go to college too!

But it’s not all awful.  I smile a bit inside when I park next to the black 1997 Volvo 850 (T-5) R sedan that’s got iPd stickers and what looks like a 3″ straight pipe exhaust.  Or the 6-speed A6 2.7T with HRE Wheels and an APR exhaust.  Or the SR20-swapped, turbo S14 240SX SE.

life is beautiful no matter where you are. Sometimes all you have to do is slow down and look at it.

So where’ve I been?  Working at my schoolwork, even at a school that is very hard to like.  I need to get on with life.  Am I abandoning this blog?  Not on your life.  I want to see this website grow.  As always, I’m open to suggestions as well as taking on any writers who want to join this little web circus.

Till next time,

-James.

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