Import Junkiez: My Car, My Life

Yup. Finally was able to import most of the posts from the archived stuff, HOORAY! Import Junkiez isn’t looking so empty now. I’m still missing a lot of pictures and it seems the entire user database did not make it over with tonight’s random update. The main reason I wanted to update the site was because I was tired of my Blackberry buzzing non-stop with “Spam” user registrations. It is quite annoying when the spam-bots are constantly sending me fake registrations 6-10 times a day. Hopefully the registration blocker will do the trick. Anyhow, after tinkering with that I had decided to try to see if I could get my old posts back and after a couple hours I can at least say that I’m much closer to the way this blog should be looking. In the future I plan to add a decent theme overlay so we’d get something less sterile than how this page currently looks! =(

Alright bedtime…

Tankers

BTW – please register if you haven’t done so already! And if you were from back in the days, please re-register. I don’t think I’ll be able to get my user list back =(

Hmmm…looks like these couple of posts I have are about parents. Interesting…

Anyway, funny video some random guy taking his random father on a drive with his turbocharged M3.

My driving hasn’t given my dad tourettes, but it’s almost there and this video has inspired me to make it happen.

Not going to spend much time talking politics, but who knew Cindy McCain, the wife of Presidential hopeful John McCain, has taken up a hobby that most of us all know about: DRIFTING. Her son, Jack, had introduced his mom to the motorsport through some videos and she took to it – Mom and son jumped on a plane to Japan to train with some pros (I wonder who…). They had their own drift team and even built a 240SX drift car and entered some events.

Man, I could never get my mom to like anything I did. Even this site here, she never took to it. Although, she found my strong point in amateur web design and had me set up her own homepage. Close enough I guess.

It seems to be spreading around most of the boards and most auto sites that a major Japanese tuning company has filed for bankruptcy – Trust aka GReddy has announced they are $600 million in debt and have watched their sales decline. I was kind of surprised since I am a big supporter of GReddy – My old car had everything from exhausts (Yes there was 2. One had failed years after the warranty expired, so I got a new one) to a GReddy windshield banner, which I scored at Import Showoff! As I was saying, it’s kind of shocking to think a company, who was there from the beginning, is on the verge of shuttering it’s doors. There things like a slowing economy and declining interest in aftermarket parts which are offered up as reasons why Trust/GReddy has filed. I would also think that people buying knock-off parts are contributing to the problem. They should stop with the E-Bay brands and support companies that actually do R&D and will stand behind their products’ performance.

For now, it’s not all bad news, as they have stated that this filing will not affect their production of current and new products. Trust/GReddy will still operate as normal here in the States and is still gearing up for a good showing at SEMA. Be assured, or maybe not, that it’ll be a while before we see a clearance sale

Autoblog: Japanese tuning firm Trust/Greddy declares bankruptcy