Nearly everything is made in china, so I'd just stick with the brands with a local store to back them up when they break. My automotive ratchets and sockets are Husky from Home Depot and my one time use throw away tools are from Harbor Freight, which has better and better quality every year.
I am told I drive like Charleze Theron in The Italian Job, I learned stick on a NB Miata, from a race car driver. I bought the car sight unseen from another Accountant out of California, it was his wife's car, barely driven and rare blue color with saddle leather. New to car collecting and did not know to ask if it was a stick or not.
Car arrives on the carrier in a parking lot local to me and I ask the driver if it is hard to learn. He laughed and said good luck. Called my race car friend and drove to pick him to drive it back for me and by that time it had started raining and the lot was mostly empty.
He told me to get in and he stood outside after showing me what each pedal was and what his commands would be, clutch in, clutch out, throttle in, throttle out, brake deep, brake light, up shift, down shift, neutral shake, ignition on, ignition off.
So here I was with this hunky guy distracting me while I am trying to play the violin with my feet and hands at the same time, with this little car.
He told me that just because I am a girl he was not going to be easy on me, that bad habits are not going to happen on his watch, do exactly as he says.
I felt like a pilot on their first solo! Explained to me that the wet parking lot was perfect because it was more forgiving on the car, so I could rev higher and learn to slide it in a drift to be fast in corners and know what to do if it happened without warning on snow or wet roads.
Picked out two light posts and that was my track, to go around them in an oval.
Clutch in, key on, neutral shake the gear lever. Clutch smoothly and smartly out while the throttle is pushed in firmly and progressively. Not what happened. Stalled it. Everyone does the first time. Second for me too.
Then I revved the snot out of it and spun out and off the line while he walked to the other side of the loop to talk to me as I came around the post toward him.
Told me to push the clutch in and hold it there and pull the lever down into second next to my right hip and then throttle up while letting the clutch out quickly as the car was already moving.
I waited too long and did it in the corner instead of before and when I let the clutch out and stabbed the throttle, the car spun around and stopped facing the opposite direction. That and I went blind, the world went black.
He walked over and laughed that I really needed to tie my hair back. I wanted to stay that way, because I felt like crying. I sucked!
Told me to suck it up and try again. After about fifteen minutes I was getting the hang of it. Then I spotted my opportunity to go for it.
Came around that same corner and dropped down into second and floored it, the car started to spin again, but I pulled the throttle back a bit and counter steered into the skid, like you see being taught to Lightning McQueen in the first Cars movie. It worked!
Nice little drift and the tires caught traction and drove away and up into third like a pro! Came back smiling like an idiot and he told me that was enough for today and to always end a practice on a good maneuver.
Got really good with that car, boys try to race me on the street in their Mustangs, Camaros and even Hellcats. I told them as long as I picked the road. They said sure and I told them about the really winding road with tight corners in the area and they rarely took the bait. Their faces would drop as I smiled and said, "Real racers can turn fast as well as drive straight fast!"
You have never seen anything so dangerous looking as a Hellcat trying to negotiate a chicane at speed. They look like they want to flip over. Yikes!
Nice to meet you too, leaving the office soon, good night!
That is right, they do run 220 over there!
Nearly everything is made in china, so I'd just stick with the brands with a local store to back them up when they break. My automotive ratchets and sockets are Husky from Home Depot and my one time use throw away tools are from Harbor Freight, which has better and better quality every year.
I am told I drive like Charleze Theron in The Italian Job, I learned stick on a NB Miata, from a race car driver. I bought the car sight unseen from another Accountant out of California, it was his wife's car, barely driven and rare blue color with saddle leather. New to car collecting and did not know to ask if it was a stick or not.
Car arrives on the carrier in a parking lot local to me and I ask the driver if it is hard to learn. He laughed and said good luck. Called my race car friend and drove to pick him to drive it back for me and by that time it had started raining and the lot was mostly empty.
He told me to get in and he stood outside after showing me what each pedal was and what his commands would be, clutch in, clutch out, throttle in, throttle out, brake deep, brake light, up shift, down shift, neutral shake, ignition on, ignition off.
So here I was with this hunky guy distracting me while I am trying to play the violin with my feet and hands at the same time, with this little car.
He told me that just because I am a girl he was not going to be easy on me, that bad habits are not going to happen on his watch, do exactly as he says.
I felt like a pilot on their first solo! Explained to me that the wet parking lot was perfect because it was more forgiving on the car, so I could rev higher and learn to slide it in a drift to be fast in corners and know what to do if it happened without warning on snow or wet roads.
Picked out two light posts and that was my track, to go around them in an oval.
Clutch in, key on, neutral shake the gear lever. Clutch smoothly and smartly out while the throttle is pushed in firmly and progressively. Not what happened. Stalled it. Everyone does the first time. Second for me too.
Then I revved the snot out of it and spun out and off the line while he walked to the other side of the loop to talk to me as I came around the post toward him.
Told me to push the clutch in and hold it there and pull the lever down into second next to my right hip and then throttle up while letting the clutch out quickly as the car was already moving.
I waited too long and did it in the corner instead of before and when I let the clutch out and stabbed the throttle, the car spun around and stopped facing the opposite direction. That and I went blind, the world went black.
He walked over and laughed that I really needed to tie my hair back. I wanted to stay that way, because I felt like crying. I sucked!
Told me to suck it up and try again. After about fifteen minutes I was getting the hang of it. Then I spotted my opportunity to go for it.
Came around that same corner and dropped down into second and floored it, the car started to spin again, but I pulled the throttle back a bit and counter steered into the skid, like you see being taught to Lightning McQueen in the first Cars movie. It worked!
Nice little drift and the tires caught traction and drove away and up into third like a pro! Came back smiling like an idiot and he told me that was enough for today and to always end a practice on a good maneuver.
Got really good with that car, boys try to race me on the street in their Mustangs, Camaros and even Hellcats. I told them as long as I picked the road. They said sure and I told them about the really winding road with tight corners in the area and they rarely took the bait. Their faces would drop as I smiled and said, "Real racers can turn fast as well as drive straight fast!"
You have never seen anything so dangerous looking as a Hellcat trying to negotiate a chicane at speed. They look like they want to flip over. Yikes!
Nice to meet you too, leaving the office soon, good night!