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Lab Test: Quixx Headlight Restorer
By Daddy Clay Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Some things just work as advertised. One of those things is the Quixx Repair System Headlight Restorer.
Let’s start with this: I’m a minivan guy. Not only that, I’m an old minivan guy.
Wait.
What I mean to say is that I’m a guy with an old minivan. Okay, I’m old, too. But the point here is that I have always loved and appreciated minivans — the practicality of a vehicle that’s low to the ground with sliding doors. To this day, I fail to see how a slightly more boxy vehicle riding slightly higher off the ground makes me slightly more of a man.
So, a real man is one that falls for image marketing that leads him away from his own self-interest? A real man is easily duped?
But I’ll leave the “aesthetics vs being actually good” debate for another time. Read the rest of this entry »
Dad at a Car Show: Personality Disorder?
By Daddy Clay Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Attending my first car show (as I did this week — the North American International Auto Show in Detroit as the guest of Ford) stimulated three facets of my personality: the inner child, the dad and the businessman.
Inner Child
When I travel, I grab a handful of car magazines. When I get the Sunday New York Times, the first thing I read is the car review at the back of the sports section. I’m never happier or more keyed up than when I’m in the throes of researching, testing and buying a new car. My love of cars is childish — having fallen head over heels when I was a kid and my dad pulled up to the house in a new, silver 928. I loved that car, and cars in general ever since. Read the rest of this entry »
A Distinctly Bounded Area Suited to Soccer Dads: 2010 Buick Enclave Review
By Daddy Clay Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
I’m driving my 2003 Mazda MPV back from the shop and I almost turn around and take it back. Sure they’ve put in a new catalytic converter and fixed the brakes, but a new problem has cropped up. What’s all the whirring and buzzing, what’s that grinding sound? What’s with all the noise?
Then I realized that after spending full week, and almost a thousand miles, behind the wheel of the 2010 Buick Enclave, I had gone soft. After all that time being spoiled in the relative peace of the Enclave’s quiet cabin, the interior my minivan now sounded like being inside an activated trash compacter being pulled behind a dump truck. Read the rest of this entry »
