Year: 2024

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Veterans Day Edition of SORT
As of Monday, November 11, 2024 at 11:11 AM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1953 Willys M38A1 1953 Dodge M37 2001 Stewart & Stevenson M1078 4×4
Okay, all of these items would typically fall under the off-road category. However, in honor of Veterans Day, I’ve selected items that include the word ‘military’ in their descriptions. Next week, we’ll resume our regular schedule of car-related fun.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 Spider Sold for $47,000 on 11/7/24
Off-Road: 1988 Suzuki Samurai Sold for $8,200 on 11/7/24
Touring: 1973 Citroen SM 3.0L 5-Speed Sold for $50,000 on 11/6/24

Another Post Office Picture Drive(s)

After today I am 1/4 of the way through getting pictures of every Post Office in the state of Oregon. Of the 22 post offices labeled Portland I only have 5 left. Trouble is, of those five there are 3 that I tried to get already, but for some reason couldn’t find them. I’ll try to find those at least one more time. The first picture in the top row was taken yesterday when I took a drive to way southeast Portland to CravenSpeed to buy their Clear Acrylic Wind Deflector. The other five were taken this morning.

Genuine Rear Under Skirt

While out driving around yesterday I stopped in at the Mazda dealer to see if the little tape things (AKA Protectors) arrived. Nope, so my friendly parts guy ordered another set. I have lost all my days that have no rain and will reach to low 60s and now I have a hard deadline of Sunday the 17th of getting the under skirt on. Hopefully those Protector things will get here during the coming week so I can get them on the car by then. The skirt itself can be done after the 17th if need be.

Forget what I just said in the last couple of lines above, f*ck the Protector things, I put the rear under skirt on this afternoon without them. The first of the two YouTube videos I watched made zero mention of those little double sided “protectors” and second vid didn’t show the process, but did mention it was a pain in the ass to put them on. I would be willing to bet if I paid the big bucks the dealer wanted to install the whole kit and caboodle those guys wouldn’t have gone through that hassle and used them either.

The Diplomat

While watching Jimmy Kimmel Live the other day (on YouTube, so not really live) Allison Janney was telling him about her most recent acting gig. She has a 2-episode run at the end of the second season of the show The Diplomat as the Vice-President. She likens the show to an old favorite, The West Wing, because it is set in the world of high-level politics. She was also enjoying working with the creator, producer and writer of this show, Debora Cahn who was an Emmy Awarding writer while working on The West Wing.

Coincidentally that same night, the star of The Diplomat, Kerri Russel, was on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Okay, it probably wasn’t a coincidence because the shows second season had just come out the week before.

The show is on Netflix so I thought maybe I should check out season 1 and see if I’d like to watch the show. I’m three shows in and I’m hooked. It is very The West Wing like in that there is a lot of smart dialogs, a lot of walk-n-talks and a lot of very fancy English settings (its filmed in London.) My only complaint is, at the beginning there is a chyron telling the shows rating, TV-MA, and the reason why it is rated at that level, Language, Nudity, Sex, Violence and so far, there hasn’t been any of the Nudity or Sex. 😉

Update: The nudity and sex showed up at the end of episode 5 and there was a little more of it in the middle of episode 6.

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Installing The Appearance Package

wideInstead of taking a top down drive on what is possibly the last few days of the year fit for that, I’ve got the car up on jack stands. That 60°ree; temperature required for optimal mounting tape adhesion is only available for today, tomorrow and Friday. And even though it didn’t get all the way to sixty today I did get the side skirts installed and as an extra bit of insurance I taped them in place with some masking tape which I carefully remove tomorrow.

Tomorrow I’ll concentrate on getting the front lip installed and on Friday I’ll hopefully be able to put the rear skirt on. I’m waiting on some small pieces of special thin double stick tape that for some reason they did not include in the box. I ordered it from Mazda last Friday, but it is coming from Georgia and hasn’t arrived yet. Fingers crossed.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

4 N Cars Edition of SORT
As of Monday, November 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1963 Alfa Romeo
Giulia 1600 Spider		 1988 Suzuki
Samurai		 1973 Citroen
SM 3.0L 5-Speed
This week we have 3 immigrant vehicles that are in this country legally. They have been in the US long enough that most likely they are naturalized citizens.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 2017 Factory Five Racing Daytona Coupe Sold for $65,001 on 10/30/24
Off-Road: 1995 Fiat Panda 4×4 Country Club Sold for $13,000 on 10/30/24
Touring: 1994 Blue Bird Wanderlodge Wide Body Bid to $56,000 on 10/30/24

The Long Way Home

Not really long, it was only 239 miles compared to the straight trip of 221, but time wise it went from 3-1/2 hours to 6. If driven without stopping, those extra miles increased the time by about 30 minutes. Where did the extra 2 hours come from? There was a 20-minute gas stop, a half an hour was burned at a coffee shop having a latte and a muffin and another half an hour eating lunch. The 40 minutes was finding and setting up a photo of four Post Offices along US30 northeast of Portland.

Somewhere between Saint Helens and Scappoose the Mini advanced past 47,000 miles.