Do You Come with the Car?

The love behind the dream

Edited to add: This post has since been syndicated by my friends at Jalopnik. You can read it over there and see the lovely responses from race fans. The title they used is not mine; I do not "let" my husband do things or deny permission to do so as I am not his mommy and he is not five years old. Regardless, as always I am extremely grateful to Ray Wert for promoting my work. This isn't a funny blog post, or a snarky one, or one about auto shows at all. This is a blog post I composed in my hea

Snakes on a car

I have had it with these motherf-ing snakes on my motherf-ing car! OMG I can't even watch this video without squealing in horror. Jesus. I would do the exact same thing and not pull over. What, were they supposed to give that snake the chance to climb in the car and eat their babies? It must have been in the engine block before they took off. OMG I am freaking out over this. True story: One day my cousin was driving down the highway when a motherf-ing snake dropped into his lap. It was just a

Is this car for the Mexicans?

I'm so naive. Perhaps it's because I'm white and grew up middle class, but I truly had no idea how much prejudice and hate existed in this world until I started doing auto show. I mean, I knew it was out there - everyone hears people they know say ugly things once in a while (and hopefully crosses those people off their list of friends) but I had no idea it was still on such a grand scale. Thanks for another sucktastic life lesson, auto show. So over the past x many years I've been doing this