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So… What’s With the Z?
I’m squinting through the mist in a miserable New England Summer town, the type of place where saltbox cottages reign over the harbor on stilts and wafty retirees turn up their nose in seashell-clad sweaters. Obscuring my view like horse blinders is a Sabelt race seat from a Ferrari challenge car, saving me from having…
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Test Fit: A Few Scenes from Home, and Vertical Vlog 01
As it turns out, life doesn’t stop, and it certainly doesn’t wait for your ultraniche microblog to catch up. I had a solid run of weekly posts since announcing my commitment back in March, and I hope you all loved the more disciplined posting structure as much as I enjoyed getting to share a lot…
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Test Fit: Thanks for the Memories!
As it turns out, mindfulness may not be for me. Every time I end up at a Chronicles meet, I end up putting an enormous amount of pressure on myself. Shuffling through back lots of a Whittier industrial complex, these events are the kind of place where I inevitably spot a magazine featured build lovingly…
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Relentless Pursuit: A Friday with Doghouse Garage
Rosamond is a magical part of California— 80 miles north of Los Angeles, it’s the kind of rural where you can land a Cessna within about 90 percent of the city limits and face no consequences. Building permits and speed limits are suggestions swiftly disregarded, the kind of rural where a cop will pass you…
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Test Fit: The Incomplete Experience of Driving Without Music
Before we start, I know that it is almost entirely indefensible having both Jeezy and Japanese city pop on the same playlist. Despite that irrefutable truth, I still have to try. Music is so central to everything that I do, automotive related or not. Dig through my center console on a long enough road trip,…
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Test Fit: Facing my Fears, Two Dollars at a Time
I’m becoming more familiar with the backdrops of famous parking lots. R-Compound, Battlecraft Parts, Narita Dogfight, and Joey Lee’s Chronicles all share space in a nondescript, industrial-strip mall, the type of place you’d drive by four-hundred times before catching an NSX pull in one day. Like knowing where a movie was filmed , finally getting…
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Three Lessons and One-Hundred Posts: Celebrating One Year of Racing Couture
I’m standing downwind of the wafting smoke from a freshly corded set of Ironman tires, thumbing through the last ten shots on a camera I’m still learning how to use. The Houston air was brisk in the December afternoon, with final moments of sunlight from 2022 reflecting off of the Speedsportz Racing Park paddock at…
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Test Fit: Parking Lot Stance Car Repairs and Other Seasonally Appropriate Adventures
Hey RC Readers! Despite it being endless Summer in SoCal, you better believe I’ve been in the Orewood brown Jordan 3s holding mugs with two hands the last few weeks. Fall in LA, outside of the pumpkin chai coming back to Starbucks (let me live), is all about good turbo weather, track season crunch time,…