There Be Race Cars, Part Eight: Kitty
During the height of the pandemic, Agent Smith set about planning out another race car. He picked up a former BMW team car with rather…
Category: Vehicles
There Be Race Cars, Part Seven: The Rustang
The race team that works out of Purgatory is named Bernal Dads Racing. Most of the racers are indeed dads and most originally lived in…
New Trailer
In addition to the Radical mentioned a while back, we also took ownership of a big enclosed trailer during the pandemic. We bought a small…
Final Bus Footage
When writing the earlier post about The Bus, I came across a few short videos of its final journey. I assembled them into a quick…
There Be Race Cars, Part Six: The Radical
At the start of the crazy pandemic, Agent Smith picked up an interesting little track car, an older model Radical. He built a rolling stand…
There Be Race Cars, Part Five: Pegamoose (BDR6)
When the Bus was totaled up at Sonoma in 2018, the team set about building a new car. They wanted to keep to the same…
There be Race Cars, Part Four: The Bus (BDR4)
In 2015 work began on BDR4. It was going to be the replacement for the long-serving Whale. After much work, a BMW E36 engine was…
There be Race Cars, Part Three: The Whale (BDR1)
When we first moved to Purgatory, the Whale came to live here when it was not zipping around racetracks. The Whale was the first team…
There be Race Cars, Part One: The 914
Back when we bought this place, Agent Smith had recently started helping out with a local group of guys who had a race car. Wait,…
Midge Was Stolen
I’m taking a break from writing about bathroom windows to type out this short post. Midge was stolen last night/early this morning from the yard…
Sunday Panorama
Inside the trailer
Everyone needs a green Ferrari
A short video of little tractor Dino. And yep, he’s a diesel.
Meet Chompy Jack and Dumpy McDumpface
Our little fleet of useful vehicles grew this summer. In addition to Bambi, we acquired a nice little gas-powered trencher which we have named Chompy…
Barbie’s Driver Seat Renovation
While the title of this post may sound odd to those unfamiliar with Purgatory, regular readers know that Barbie refers to our rather large Ford…
Bambi’s Arrival
During the Great Wall project, we used a total of four different excavators. We rented two, one of which pooped out on us and had…
Why excavator?
Because dig. Because push or drag. Because lift and carry. Just don’t ask too many questions about how floppy everything is. You buy an ex-rental,…
Tractor Practice
Agent Smith has been taking Tony out to practice crushing things.
The Bus Made the News
I will admit that, since the recent presidential election in this country, neither myself nor Agent Smith have been very upbeat. We are personally affected…
Call me Ishmael
At the close of last year, The Whale was sold off to a brand-new LeMons team. While it was sad to see it leave the garage,…
Learning to work with Tony
Our new tractor arrived a while back and Agent Smith has slowly been getting the hang of things. Tony is much larger than little Dino,…
Tony Arrived This Week
Several notes about this video: just after the second cut Agent Smith accidentally ran over one of our neighbor’s dogs. The dog, named Happy, is…
Race Car Driving
Ever wonder what it’s like to drive one of the race cars that reside at Purgatory? Here’s a video from the last 24 Hours of…
More buttons!
A few weeks back I came home from a class up north and Agent Smith informed me that the right side garage door was “busted.”…
The fun things to drive at Purgatory
In addition to the project and race cars and utility vehicles, we have the daily drivers–our less sensible, but oh-so-fun vehicles. First is a shot of…
The Other “Vehicles” @ Purgatory
As mentioned in the previous post, quite a bit of wrenching on cars goes on here. It’s not just race cars that are taken care…
The Auto Works
As many people know, we spent about two years looking for the right “house.” By “house,” what I really mean is a large garage with…
Weeds: We have them.
One of the side effects of the recent rain has been an explosion of growth, from barren, horse-trampled, crumbling hillsides to…I have no idea what,…
Garage Work
AS has been spending his free time doing his own bit of nesting, organizing his office space and the garage. About six weeks ago, I bought…
Tractors of Purgatory
In an earlier post, stega mentioned that the original owner of the property did quite a bit of earthmoving–building roads, clearing and building the pad for the…
A peek inside
I’m currently working on a bunch of posts covering things from the last two weeks, but those won’t be up until later today and tomorrow.…
A man’s got to know his trucks’ limitations.
Having a handle on the various uses of the apostrophe doesn’t hurt either. With the MiniTruck (Truckster/Truckette/Truckling…we need a name for this thing) acquired, it…