Month: August 2022

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Here We Go Again Edition of SORT
As of Monday, August 8, 2022 at 6:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
2000 Honda S2000 2003 Land Rover Discovery II HSE 1977 Honda Accord
First thing I’d do would be to add two 8″ red stripes accented by 1″ black stripes on each side. 🙂 This vehicle is located in Flemington, NJ. Hmm, that sounds familiar. I’m sure someone will remind me. The first car Donna & I bought together was a 1978 model identical to this while we were on Guam.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1973 Porsche 914 2.0 Sold for $23,750 on 8/7/22
Off-Road: 2003 Lexus LX470 Sold for $20,000 on 8/3/22
Touring: 2003 Mercedes-Benz SL500 Sold for $36,000 on 8/7/22

828 Days In The Making

The Blipshift T-Shirt of April 29, 2020 was called AsteRISK and I thought that maybe I’d buy one. But, I hesitated, so I missed out on it and it came to be called my biggest regret of the year.

Sometime early this year Blipshift started selling a bumper sticker with that statement on it and I thought maybe I should buy that. But, on second thought, the black bumper sticker just wouldn’t look good on the CTBNL’s silver bumper, so I didn’t.

Then in February I did buy one, just to have it before they stopped selling them. And you never know, our next car could be black. Which is exactly what happened. Not one we bought, but When we took our trip to Santa Fe we rented a Mazda CX-5 and it was black. I put the sticker on its back bumper and left it there for the 2 weeks we had the vehicle. Since then it has been stuck to the top of my tool box.

Occasionally Blipshift does reprint a particular design, usually in a different color, but they never did. This past Thursday and Friday, plus all next week, they ae celebrating their 10 year anniversary by reprinting the best designs from the past decade. Guess which one made the cut? AsteRISK did!

This time, 828 days later, I didn’t hesitate, I ordered one.

47,001 Reasons

I have a lot of reasons as to why I haven’t written anything real here, the Monday car posts don’t really count, in almost 2 weeks.

Fourteen of those reasons are I decided to rewatch, for possibly the 4th or 5th time, that 20-year old short-lived space western, Firefly.

A quartet of those reasons is I discovered The Brokenwood Mysteries. There are 8 seasons with a total of 36 episodes, but only 4 are available on Prime Video. Like a lot of mystery shows that tickle my fancy, this is one also has a quirky detective whose personality is mirrored in their car. Like Columbo with his old Peugeot 403 convertible and DCI Vera Stanhope with her Land-Rover Defender 90 Tdi. In this show, set in New Zealand, Senior Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd drives a 1971 Holden Kingswood. Come to think of it, all three of them come from the “almost leaving, but before going, turn around and ask another question” school of detectiving.

But, most of those reasons are because nothing exciting has happened to write about, until this morning. When I got in the Mini to run to the store the odometer read 47001.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

No Reserve Edition of SORT
As of Monday, August 1, 2022 at 6:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1973 Porsche 914 2.0 2003 Lexus LX470 2003 Mercedes-Benz SL500
After last week’s Reserve Not Met discussion we of course had another, the Chevy Wagon. For this week, to guarantee all the vehicles will sell, the three I chose are all “No Reserve” auctions.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1993 Mazda RX-7 R1 Sold for $70,500 on 7/27/22
Off-Road: 1982 Jeep Cherokee Sold for $25,500 on 7/26/22
Touring: 1951 Chevrolet Wagon Bid to $26,250 on 7/28/22