Dear Broadus...

(A open response to this post and the video posted below:)
http://atlasflynched.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-son-said-this-reminds-me-of.html





..I cannot believe that you would think that I would be caught DEAD in this Civic wagon........ with that stock steering wheel!
I cannot drive a car on lose surfaces in anger without MY steering wheel... I have transfered said prefered wheel from one Toyota rally truck to another Toyota rally truck, to another.
I also made sure that I had one in my 79 Jeep CJ-7.

May I present the only wheel that ever worked for me:
The Grant Classic


Now, having sorted that out... DUDE!!! I LOVE those wagons!
I have ALWAYS wanted one!
Well... that and a Mazda 323 GTX.

I have had this article for years... I kept this issue of Sport Compact Car set out... I used to read this article several times a week... when I saw this video I realized it had been 2 years since I saw the magazine... I went and dusted it off straight away.
I scanned this in for you and your father to check out... oh... and all you readers can partake also.

Now... Broadus... find me one of those wagons for cheap, OK?

Random external inspiration... VERY random

So there is 14" of snow on the ground here.
Ice all over the place, and the temps are hitting -12 some days.
I am as broke as you can get, still without my main computer, not able to ride my bike, no time to work on the bike even if I did have some money for parts, and I am limited to riding in 4 wheeled vehicles for a while.
(no money for ice studs and a mostly bald back tire does not make for a good snow bike!)
I have been making plans for my bikes and trying to see down the road far enough to allow myself to imagine buying my old XS650 chopper project back... but my eyesight isn't that good.
And I can't find my binoculars.

So, 4 wheeled contraptions have been in the front of my mind these days.
Not only are they keeping me sane, but there has been a fair bit of inspiration going on, and I am really enjoying the new input and how they have been influencing my bike ideas.
I decided to share, and then it got REALLY random.
So here you go... absolutely random 4 wheeled external inspiration for your consumption.