Go-fast goodies
Are you ready to “Control the Road”?
I had a chance to spend some time with the Lakewood crew at the 2012 SEMA show in November. This year, Lakewood is launching a complete bolt-on suspension system for late model Ford Mustangs. The kits are true bolt-ons, and driven back to back, you can really feel a difference. Lakewood gave a few of [...]
Hostess Hunters- Once More Into The Fray
With the engine buzzing at 6500 rpm, I weave my way through traffic like a jack rabbit through the desert vegatation. Unlike the rabbit who is being hunted, I am the hunter, searching for the last stronghold of delectable goodness that is the Hostess Twinkie. Now I don’t claim to be any sort of pioneering tracker, [...]
Redneck Monday
Every great website needs a great jingle, and I think we have come up with just the ticket. Red Dirt is not just a website, it’s a way of life. We also have some new projects here in the Red Dirt Rodz garage. Our twin-turbo Buick wagon, Buttered Toast, is getting a new high-tech ignition [...]
Buttered Toast is in the June Issue of Hot Rod!
If you have been reading long, you know that Buttered Toast is our twin-turbo ’63 Buick Le Sabre wagon. As was the original plan, the story has now been published in the June issue of Hot Rod Magazine. The story covers 3 pages starting on page 94. If you are not a subscriber (why aren’t [...]
SEMA Day 3
Thursday was spent chatting it up with a bunch of people, mostly colleagues, I have not seen in a while. SEMA is a great place to meet up with people that you normally only get to talk to on the phone. After lunch, I managed to get over to the MOPAR display, they had some [...]
“Mustang. Because nobody reminisces about their first Camry”
That was one of the “rejected” tag lines Steve Ling, North American Car Marketing Manager for Ford, told us about at the 37th annual Mid-America Team Shelby Nationals this weekend. I have been attending this event for the last 7 years, and even though I started out as very much a non-Ford guy, 7 years [...]
Slippery- Buttered Toast’s first drive
I stuck the GoPro Hero HD on the side of the Buick Lesabre wagon, otherwise known as Buttered Toast and took it to the exhaust shop, after finishing the twin-turbo install. Want to hear it? Just click the little “play” arrow. Share it. Like it. Comment on it. Tell your friends to do the same. When [...]
Feelin’ all warm and Toasty
OK, OK, I get it, enough of the Buttered Toast references. I finally got the wagon running and driving. It is officially back from a long slumber. I shot a little video using my GoPro Hero HD video camera of the drive to the exhaust shop. Enjoy. I will have better video of the completed car soon.
Buttered Toast Lives!!!!!!
Ok, so if you have been reading this site for any amount of time, then you would already know that: 1. I love Buicks. 2. I am building a twin-turbo Buick Wagon called “Buttered Toast”. Well, after seriously over-complicating what in reality was a simple turbo install, I have finally managed to complete the installation [...]