Month: July 2019

Brit Bits 2

Drive Time

Following yesterday’s post about the exquisite Triumph TR4, I need to explain where I got the title of the two posts.  But first, a little exposition.

As much as I love and adore old cars, I have no interest — none —  in restoring one.  Indeed, even if I were tempted to buy one, I would never be one of Those Guys who spend hours over weekends trying to coax life into an old Weber carburetor or rewiring the dashboard switches.  I believe that all that stuff is best left to people who enjoy doing this stuff:  I’m a user, not a fixer or tinkerer, and think that if I were intended to venture into this dark world of vintage car ownership, God would not have invented auto mechanics or, for that matter, AAA.

However, when I do happen upon a temple dedicated to these endeavors, I’m happy to pass on the news in case there is the occasional Reader who might need to visit such an establishment.  So during my recent trip to New England, I happened to come upon Brit Bits, a marvelously-named place located in Rye, New Hampshire.  Here’s what I saw:

(I should point out that in her yoof, New Wife used to drive an MGB GT like the mustard-colored one — the color is Full Late-1960s — only hers was aubergine:  “purple”, to you and me.  If I’d had the money — and the nerve —  I would have bought her the white one and driven it back the Texas.)

But be still, my beating heart:  Morris Minors!

And don’t get me started about the Austin Healey Mk III:

The only problem with owning one of these, as any fule kno, is that one would need to move to Rye and form a very close relationship with the mechanics at Brit Bits (maybe even adoption should be considered), unless one were of the aforementioned fixers and tinkerers.

However, if I were to be presented with a “resto-mod” of the Healey, MGB or even that Morris Minor Traveller station wagon, I’d sell a firstborn or two.

And you have to love a place that features this July 4-themed pic on their website:

Brit Bits 1

Drive Time

One of the few benefits of being old is that when someone talks about some beautiful piece of old stuff, you can probably remember seeing it for yourself, back in the day.  I noticed that folks commented on the old gun ads in last week’s post — yup, I remember shooting some of those old guns too — and I had a similar reaction to this article about some different old stuff:

A fabulous Triumph TR4 two-seater sports car once owned by Essex Police is set to go under the [auctioneer’s] hammer. Police needed to buy sports cars in the 1960s to keep up with miscreant motorists with powerful motors.

There are pics of said car in the article — and it IS a beauty.  Here are some pics of other Triumph TR4s:

 

 

Love the wire wheels.  The other types?  Not so much:

 

Must say, though, that the TR4’s backside is Full 1960:

 

But the interior is lovely:

 

And all that said, I’d take one in a heartbeat, even with the oil leaks and

Back in the 1960s, I was jealous of the TR4’s driver every time I saw one zipping past.  As I recall, most of them were women… and pretty ones at that.

 

…and if the Internet is to be trusted, they still are.

 

 

Beautiful.

News Roundup

Funny Stuff

1) Half of Germany sees Islam as a threat — the other half is Muslim.

2) POTUS tells Congressional Commies to fuck off back to Shitholia — ’bout time.  There’s apparently some confusion about this:  what he meant  was that AOC should first try running Brooklyn  in the way she wants to run the U.S.;  ditto that Black chick for Boston, the Arab from Detroit, and the Black chick from Somalia / Minneapolis [some overlap].  Apparently, however, most Republicans understood his message perfectly.

3) Chuckie thinks that slavery reparations are a good idea — of course he does, the slimy little Commie fuck.  Ever since Black Jesus left the White House, the Socialists have been scrambling to keep dem darkies on the plantation, and this seems to be the best they can do.  (They can’t promise Black people actual jobs, of course — Trump’s already reduced Black unemployment.)

4) Congress under threat of attack — the cops want to increase security because Trump’s rhetoric may inflame sentiment against the Commie Congressmen.  Where was all this concern when Bernie Bros and Pantifa threatened Republicans, e.g. Steve Scalise?

Silence In Court

Gun/Ammo Tests, The Gun Thing

The good folks at ammunitiontogo.com sent me a link to their article on silencers (suppressors, moderators, what have you).

If you don’t know much on the topic (I didn’t, until recently), it’s a good one.

Favorite stat: of the ~1.5 million suppressors extant in the U.S., Texas accounts for well over 260,000 (plus one more when I get my act together).

Mr. Free Market has one of these moderated sweetie-pies (because while guns are hated by the elites in Britishland, amazingly, “moderators” are not only allowed, but encouraged  in their use — he has five or six, as I recall).

S&W M&P 15-22. Want.

Thanks to Reader Dave S. for the link.

Quote Of The Day

Marxists, QOTD

Part II from The Diplomad:

“As I noted a long time ago, [Lefties] change the meanings of words, so that the most basic units of thought and expression no longer mean what we once thought they did.  We can’t even use good old-fashion pronouns.  As per Orwell, they rewrite the dictionary, they make us hesitate when we think and speak, we must not give “offense” or reveal ourselves as “racist, homophobic, misogynistic” throw backs to a dark era.  They use fake bought and paid for “science” to convince us to give up our standard of living, to question whether labels such as “male” and “female” have any meaning.  They tear down flags, statues, and monuments; they want place names changed to erase our history.  They deliberately blur the distinction between citizen and non-citizen, between legal and illegal residents in our country.  They want open borders;  they, in sum, want a destruction of this country, and of Western civilization.”

Yeah, well that only works on the pussies.  I don’t think twice about “causing offence” before I write or say anything — and if I do, 90% of the time I say it anyway precisely because it does  cause offence.

And yeah:  their long game is the destruction of Western civilization.  ‘Twas ever thus, since Marx.

Which reminds me:  I need to buy some more ammo.

Buycott

Business, Politics

As stated earlier, I’ll be moving today, and you know how much stuff you need when you move in, right?  Then we have this situation:

Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a recent interview that he plans to donate a part of his fortune, which has a net worth of $5.9 billion according to Forbes, to Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. He said that although Trump “sucks” at communicating he should be given credit for boosting jobs in America and taking strong stances against China, Iran, and North Korea.
Following the article’s publication in late June, some shoppers at the home improvement supply giant expressed outrage over the 90-year-old’s decision and vowed to boycott the store. The hashtag #BoycottHomeDepot also started to emerge on social media.

But as author and political commentator Dan Bongino‏ notes:

“Liberal boycotts are a joke, just like liberals. The best thing for your business is a liberal boycott. Your sales will explode after lunatic libs announce their ‘boycott’. Just ask Chick-fil-A.”

So guess where I’ll be getting all my household hardware needs for the next week or two… and there’s a branch just a few blocks away.

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