California Dreaming: VW Bus

This isn't really my love affair, but my fathers of his VW Bus. I am not sure how young I was, but I always remember having his VW Bus parked in our garage. Maybe it is a man thing that he felt he needed in his life... All I know is that my mom has always allowed for it to stay there. My father primarily used the bus to take his dirt-bikes out to the desert to ride, and to clear his mind. When my brother and I were younger we would always complain about the color, what it looked like, and most importantly how SLOW it moved.

However, last weekend, I was down in Laguna Beach, and a friend offered to give us a ride home in his VW Bus. We slowly crept along PCH, and a flood of memories came back to me and the time spent in the bus... Time spent: camping, sleeping, hanging out with my family. From that moment on, it all came together for me. I am sure families keep some of their cars because of all of the memories attached to them. This one is for you dad!

Check out a brief history on the VW Bus here.

Metal Crunch: AKA My Car

This hurts me more than it hurts you... Last Friday I over-heard my co-employee's intern (who works on our floor) that her day wasn't going well because she just hit someone's car in the work parking-lot. Naturally I didn't think anything of this until security called me... They uttered the words, "we think you car has been hit again"! Notice the words - we think & hit again - last year around this time my car was hit that the same lot. I jumped out of my chair, ran down, I already knew my car was hit before they confirmed it because of the intern story I over-heard, and that fact is that I have MISERABLE car luck (more on that later).

By the time I had reached the car I was a little upset, not so much that my car was hit, but at the amount of time it was going to take to fix this. The intern had basically driven down the entire left side of car! She tried to rub away the the dents/sctraches, and I was like save yourself, you can't rub out a dent! So, there I was in the parking lot: comforting a now crying intern, looking at my damaged car, and having security telling me that I don't HAVE to go through insurance. What a mess! Can someone hold me, and tell me it is going to be ok??

I am still dealing with her insurance company because they are like the DMV only there to help you when you are about to loose it with them. I will let you know the final outcome whens it happens. I will probably take it to the same repair shop that fixed my car the last time, it was hit by someone when I was at work.

Take it from me: working at your desk and then getting a call telling you that your car has been hit when you were not in it, SUCKS! *sigh* All right that was my vent.

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No One Honks at Grandma!

Watch this video, you will laugh out loud!

The Worst Car of All Time: Pontiac Aztek

Automatically when I think of the worst car ever the Pontiac Aztek comes to mind. Nothing compares to the ugliness of this car! This as a Frankenstein experiment gone wrong at every plastic molding that holds this car together. This almagmation SUV/Car is described as: "Xtreme" and was intended for the Generation 'X' buyer demographic. The terms alone used to describe this "thing" should be enough to turn you off from buying it, it makes me think of Doritos, Gatorade, and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.

Time Magazine placed this on their list of the 50 worst cars of all time. Also, The Daily Telegraph named it the worst car. All I ask is how can so many people, and studies be wrong. That is because they are not!

To add insult to injury I found out that the back of this car can turn into a TENT! A tent/car/SUV I have no words. I about lost my shit when I found that out. Here is the picture to prove it.

Not So Much: American Cars

Enjoy these videos on GM! This is what they want you to think.



This might be more like it.