Posts tagged “cars”

The BMW Experiment

After eighteen months I was forced to consider my foray into the lifestyle of luxury car ownership a failure. Just after Thanksgiving in 2004 I traded my red 1990 Toyota 4×4 for a black 2001 BMW 330 CCi. It was a gorgeous car. I really, really loved it. It was a sport model and a

CrashBonsai

More proof that people are strange (in case you needed some): There is a website dedicated to selling toy cars which have suffered toy accidents by crashing into toy (bonsai) trees. The art pieces go for between $75 – $150. People are — apparently — grabbing them like hotcakes. CrashBonsai

Acura Integra VS Acura NSX

This was never intended to be a “real” post. This was only a test.

SpoilerKits

No detail has been overlooked! The URL’plate compliments the chrome detailing on any vehicle. The letters are bold and stand out. They are easy to read, even at highway speeds!

GPS Fun!

A man in Connecticut rented a car and was shocked to discover a $450 charge for speeding on his bill when he returned the vehicle. It seems the rental company has GPS devices in their cars so they can track what the driver might do. Now … in general I think this is a pretty

Car Flamethrower

Crime-obsessed South Africans have a powerful new weapon with which to stop likely criminals: the car flamethrower.

Tracks

I can’t decide if I want to do this to my truck. What do you think?

Submerging Vehicle

How to Survive Due to increased public interest, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles offers an instructional video for motorists on how to survive a submerging vehicle. You will need RealPlayer Video to view.

The Automobile and the Tiara as Symbols of Class Distinction

The Automobile and the Tiara as Symbols of Class Distinction

“The egalitarianism of modern America represents the essential achievement of the classless society envisioned by Marx.” F. Fukuyama

Conversations in the Car

Interesting conversations often take place in the car.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.