Looking Out From the Garage

If only it could have been a donkey...

...then we really would have been taught a poignant lesson by these two... 

 

 

It is actually a really heartwarming story. 

Annie, Lane and Rollei

It made me think back to the love given to me by Rollei.  For 13 years he was a faithful companion and showed the devotion that only a dog can muster.  It is truly a gift. 

Rollei is the "Uber-Beagle" on the right.  He was a Beagle, Basset, Foxhound mix.  I think it would be more appropriate to say he was a cross between a nose and a garbage can. 

On the left was another of my wonderful friends.  Annie was a Cocker Spaniel, Golden Retriever mix.  I always joked that she had ADD... she could NEVER get enough attention. 

Annie joined our "one dog" house and really shook things up for the dog of the house.  But, when she passed away, Rollei mourned her for months.  They didn't "hang out" together, but they went a lot of places together... they were brother and sister.  "She's licking me!!"

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4 comments • Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy • January 16 2009 09:59PM

Rallying through the ages

Mike, this post is just for you... from LaneBailey.com

Nostalgia and the Rally car... First up is the absolute COOLEST rally car ever. It looks evil. The Lancia Stratos would be the Darth Vader of Rally cars... if it were only black. The most popular livery would have been the white with green and red for Alitalia...

The year was 1976.

 

The 1980s would bring "the Killer Bs". They were actual cars with too much power... My favorite car was one of the last Bs to see competition in the WRC. The cars were part of WRC's Group B. The rules were... "whatever". And I think the pinnacle of the breed was the ford RS200. Packing 600+ hp and capable of 0-60s in the low 2 second range...

Shown here in Sweden, the next race would be Portugal. Drivers and spectators both lost lives when the cars proved too fast for the crowds lining the course.

The year was 1986.

 

Rise of the Subaru... The 1990s brought back power levels that were only slightly below the Bs, but they weren't as fast. However, the sport grew dramatically and the Subaru WRX stepped into the fray.

Instead of the rear wheel drive cars of the 1970s, the cars of the 1990 were almost all 4wd. There had been a slight shift away from 4wd after the end of the B era because the drive systems cost weight and power... but they proved faster, and that is what counts.

The year is 1997.

 

This was also the time when stars like Colin McRae and Richard Burns entered the limelight, and teams would have helicopters looking over the course for issues in front of their cars. Obviously, while there was a budget, it was big... but still just a small fraction of fielding a Formula 1 team.

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2 comments • Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy • October 02 2008 08:19AM

Where is the future...

The future is now... and my future stared me in the computer screen... 

I think back to a commercial that I've seen where the announcer is wondering what happened to the future.  As The Jetsons are shown in the back ground, he asks where the flying cars, personal jet packs and in home nuclear reactors are? 

I wonder the same thing.  I remember as a kid seeing "the future" portrayed with flying cars and high speed people movers...  The year 2000 should have had all of those groovy toys.  But instead, it was much like it was in the 1980s... or the 1970s... 

But all of that changed yesterday. 

 

And the other half was my future staring at me on the computer screen.  As I watched the first video, this popped up on the sidebar.  As I watched it, I saw one of my boys.  No, it wasn't actually one of MY boys, but it sure could be... the oldest one is 4, so another 5 or 6 years...  The younger one is 7 months... so I'll be seeing this happen in 10 years... tops.

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7 comments • Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy • September 26 2008 08:10PM