Just Now Stumbled onto this one: www.challengerblog.com If you’re interested here are the other posts by JEK on the new Challenger: original New Dodge Challenger MRC post Dodge Challenger in 2008

What’s that rumblin’ in the distance?  Oh, My, Gawd; It’s a Dodge!  The new 2008 Dodge Challenger that is. Picture yourself in a seat of a rever With tangerine paint and big Hemi thighs     -John, Paul, George, Ringo, Petty Chrysler has finally announced that the Challenger is graduating from Concept Car to Production Car.  Here’s [...]

Well, actually, I’m a good “Truck Drivin’ Passenger”, although I did get to sit in the driver’s seat for a photo…. J.J. came through on his offer to let me ride along on a short run to Dallas and back…. You definitely get a different perspective on driving when you’re sitting way up above the [...]

OK Kids, Lets debunk the myths surrounding the latest profession du jour. First, lets get acquainted, I have been involved in the industry all of my life, I always wanted to be a driver just like my father was for over 45 years. I considered it an honorable profession, Back then. Most people’s view of [...]

“Well, I pulled outta Pittsburgh, Rollin’ down the Eastern seaboard, I got my diesel wound-up and she’s rollin’ like never before”….. (a little quote from “Six Days on the Road”)….. J.J. claimed he had some truck drivin’ stories, and I’m sure all of us have a story or two concerning encounters of the eighteen wheel [...]

Does anyone think that the automotive manufacturers are going to offer any viable alternatives to the dinosaur-powered models on the market now?….. I don’t see anything that would make any major impact coming out in the near future….. I’m still seeing ads for big V-8′s and large SUV’s from all the manufacturers….. Granted, I’m a [...]

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would [...]

In a Seattle airport bookstore I caught a glimpse of a car magazine with a Dodge Challenger on the cover.  At first I thought it was an original 70′s car, but no, it was a new retro concept car. I must say it’d be very cool to have one of these.   Of course I’m [...]

Well I guess you have all heard the news. Monday GM announced that they will close the Oklahoma City assembly Facility. I worked for a GM contractor for 2.5 years and was laid off last Oct. and guess what the UAW did not do squat for us. We were told “that’s just how it goes” [...]

Here are some quotes from an article out of Friday’s The Oklahoman about how the poor oil industry is just barely surviving with all the devastating weather and oil shortages……. “DALLAS – Exxon Mobil Corp. rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company’s third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion, and it became [...]

Why is Diesel Fuel an average $1.50 higher than Gasoline? As the price of fuel goes up so must prices for everything, we have to pass this cost along somehow. And as I have said before the companies Damn sure are not going to lower their profit margins, and perks for the fat cats.

In the ’50′s and ’60′s, we were the same as quaranteed to have automobiles/transporation that didn’t require the use of polluting, foul, toxic gasoline no later than the 1990′s and ,whew, by the 21st century, we would have anti-grav flying cars with all the bells and whistles…… Well, it is the 21st century and, I [...]

Earlier this week, broken, beat-up bikes entirely painted with white primer appeared tied to select Seattle street lights with signs on them that read “a cyclist was struck here”.  It is a move by an anonymous group to promote bike awareness to car drivers.  Each GhostCycle has a story behind it posted on GhostCycle.org.  This [...]

A friend of ours has been looking to buy a compact SUV. His reasons: safety and the need to drive high-clearance roads for hiking. Let’s look at the latter first. Tarn and I take our Honda Accord on our hiking adventures and have yet to encounter a Washington back road we couldn’t clear. Our friend [...]

Are there any NASCAR fans out there?….Well, you probably won’t appreciate what I have to say, but at least hear me out…… Now, don’t get me wrong, I used to be a BIG NASCAR fan years ago…. But now, I get tired of watching a bunch of different colored melted “twinkes” goin’ ’round and ’round [...]