It’s bad enough having to pay registration fees on your car every year, but do you realize what a big hassle it is to get a smog check here in Southern California? I happened to be unlucky enough to have both of my registration renewals this year include a required smog check with both of them. That meant that on top of the couple of hundred dollars per car that I’m paying for just to get this lame little reflective sticker to slap onto my license plate (which usually ends up getting stolen by someone who is apparently smarter than me), I have to drop another $100 to get both of my cars smog checked. Read the rest of this entry »
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Experience With Jim Russell
On September - 1 - 2009
On almost any other occasion, rolling a caravan of six Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Xs up to Infineon Raceway would be almost as cool as it gets, but not for Will “Cheesecake” Roegge and myself. Let me explain a little bit. A couple of weeks ago, Moe Durand hit me up to see if Will Roegge and I could shoot a video for Mitsubishi that involved trekking six of these all-wheel drive turbo cars up to wine country Sonoma, California so they could drop them off at Jim Russell Racing School (Yeah, Robbie, I know you and Skip Barber are booing that right now. LOL). So far that does still sound pretty cool, doesn’t it? Read the rest of this entry »
Medium Monster Hits X Games
On August - 20 - 2009
A couple of weekends ago when both Staples Center and Home Depot Center were getting tons of love for the X Games, Will “Cheesecake” Roegge and myself had the honor of following Andrew Comrie Picard and his ACP Rally team with their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (8 or 9 I forget). As always, things were really last minute so it was a pain to get media passes just so we could shoot at the event. Fortunately, our people called some other people who knew people that could talk to people in order to swing us some credentials. Though that never really helps out when you try to sign in and pick it up. Read the rest of this entry »