Another milestone this week: my Z28 at 97k!!
I took a short road trip over the weekend and my 1995 Z28 Camaro turned the clock at the 97,000 mile mark. Yes indeed, count down to 100,000 miles is on its way.
My Z28 at 97K
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My S2K at 12,000 Miles
Today was a bit of a milestone: my S2K at 12k!!
My 12-year-old, 2003 Honda S2000 turned 12,000 miles old today. Three years ago, I purchased the car from an estate sale with only 4,700 miles on the clock. The lawyers liquidating the estate had no clue what they and I scored one hell of nice deal.
New Tires for Camaro Z28
My aging daily driver – a 1995 Z28 Camaro – got treated to a set of new tires this week. During a span of 20 years and over 96,000 miles, this is the fourth set of tires I’ve bought. Factory tires were GoodYear GSC’s; an advanced high performance tire for the time, they were fair, with good dry adhesion but not so great in the wet. I replaced the factory fitted tires with 2 more sets of GSC’s which I purchased from the company that converted Z28 Camaros to SS’s back in the day. These were brand new “take offs” sold at a significant discount and I ordered two sets at different times. When the last set of the GSC’s wore out, I bought BFG Comps and what a difference! The BFG’s were much nicer in the dry and wet as well.
Rear Suspension Reassembly
In the last couple of posts I’ve described the reason for taking apart the rear suspension on bowtie6. I had to send the coilovers back to the manufacturer for servicing and sure enough, after a few days they arrived back in as-new condition. This morning, I started cleaning all the hardware and springs followed by a dry-run: installing the coilovers on the rear suspension (without springs) and going through the entire range of motion of the axle using my jack. I just wanted to make sure nothing was binding or out of alignment. All checked out, so time to quit farting around and get down to business…
Meet DiDi
Meet DiDi: my little Welsh Pembroke Corgi.
DiDi hails from horse country in AIken, South Carolina. DiDi is seven years old and we adopted her about 3 years ago from a breeder. She is our retired supermodel wearing her permanent “little black dress”. I say supermodel because at one time she took part in the show-dog circuit and even won a competition or two. And of course, she knows how to “work it”: she is very successful at getting treats as well as cute pictures like the one above.
The Mrs took this picture today on her iPhone and I thought it was quite remarkable. Amazing thing the iPhone. And of course DiDi knows how to get the most out of the moment!