Vroom Room

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265 Cubic InchIts Friday, its chilly, its the Vroom Room, come in make yourself comfortable, we have cappuccino and biscotti join the conversation.

If you are wondering...yes The Colonel is back in total reality and up to speed...just in case you were wondering.

Think about this for a moment, back in 1955 (57 years ago) if anyone would have mentioned that the lowly by the standards of the day Chevrolet 265 cubic inch would morph a few times over, and still be around in 2012 and beyond with pushrods and only 2 valves per cylinder. 

Who knew at the time!

If you are of an age that you grew up with 265's, 283's, 327's and perhaps took a few apart and put them back together again tell us about it.

Here is a thought...do you prefer the view from the rear view mirror or the windshield? Perhaps we are all spending an inordinate amount of time in the rear view mirror.

A quick example...in the early 1950's when Ed Cole engineered the small block 265 he did not have much to look at in the rear view mirror as a V8 for Chevrolet, yes there was the stovebolt 6. At the time he looked out the windshield, came up with a light, small V8 that fit the Chevrolet philosophy, with stamped steel rocker arms, and tubular push rods to bring oil to the roacker arms. The rest is not only history, but also the future. 

In our case 4 years ago we did a "white paper" on The New Reality, at the time we knew that everything had changed. We do not subscribe to waiting for a recovery to occur, its a New Reality.

The folks at Inside Line published an impressive photo gallery of 2012 SEMA Show.

A few days ago The Colonel did a road trip to Windsor, and yes Windsor is slowly coming back (economically) in case you were wondering. Seems The Colonel cannot drive by RM Auctions in Blenheim without stopping and taking some photos RM 2012.

Instead of old race cars, we have Drivers and Personalities take a moment, totally cool.

Vroom Room

Good Morning!

Our 6th AnniversaryBig day today...its the Vroom Room, its the 6th Anniversary of our publication...come in make yourself comfortable, we have cappuccino, biscotti, and orange juice with Perrier Jouet, join the conversation. 

If anyone 6 years ago would have told us that we would evolve, progress, and still be going strong, who knows what the response would have been at the time. In the meantime, lets see where we go as the velocity of time increasingly accelerates. While we incrementally grow this publication on a daily basis.

Yes...time is a precious commodity, with the level of passion increasing to remain ahead of the 8 ball as we say around here. We started the month of September with some nostalgia, the Strada garage, a few stories, our usual videos of content that we find interesting, and nostalgia music that captures our interest. 

Time, and being your own editor has truly caught our attention so far this year, we urge you to protect, conserve, and use your time wisely, as well as ruthlessly edit anything and everything that is published these days. There is no way that any of us can accommodate the onslaught of content. 

We remain passionate, while crafting our own direction. The Colonel is the main content generator, The Crew makes ongoing contributions.

We continue to have animated editorial discussions, and we still review vehicles. 

We prefer to review vehicles that we like, compared to just vehicles. Yes...they are all good vehicles, except that we like some more than others.

We revised the format of our publication, the photos are larger, we hopefully improved the visual presentation, while conserving our content. Its important for us that all the content from the first day is available, and our publication is searchable. 

Last week was also our 4th annivarsary of our presence on Twitter. Yes...we remember the early days of social media...what we called to "social autosphere" at the time.

Our direction for the next year(s) by now you know that we will follow our passion, continue to share our thoughts, review vehicles, and cumminate whatever catches our attention. 

Yesterday the CAW reached an agreement with Chrysler, all the blaster is a done deal. It was fascinating to read the views of pundits who for some reason entertain a stereotype opinion of union negotiations. 

If anyone is shocked that Justin Trudeau joined the race or coronation of the Liberal party leadership they must have been hiding in a secure location. Yes...we have been following Justin on Twitter for some time.

Fascinating...Overstimulated by Seth Godin

Just a bunch of old Ferrari GTO's