As a child, I loved toy vehicles. I must have had 50 matchbox cars, all of which I named. In my imagination, they each had their own unique horn sound. Some of them I repainted in a different color. Why did Mattel make the Lambo pink? I made it Metallic Pine Green. That was better. Then my brothers got old enough to want to play with my cars. They threw them and stepped on them. So my cars were all chipped and the wheels, shall we say, had excess negative camber. So I forgot about cars for a while.

As a teen, I had posters of the Porsche, the Ferarri, the Lambo, the Vector. But I had no money to buy these things, and neither did anybody else I knew. When I went to college, I left all my posters behind. My brother promptly moved into my room, took down my posters, and ripped them and crumpled them when he "stored" them. So I forgot about cars for a while longer.

As an adult, my girlfriend (now my fiancee) showed me her favorite car when we were walking through our parking garage. It was a "Z", a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. I had no idea what it was, but I got more and more interested in the car the more I looked at it. And I looked at it many times that year. After two years, I got one of my own. To keep it nice, I kept my beat-up old car that I had from college and grad school.

Today, I love vehicles, I (and my fiancee) have several, including that 300ZX, and the vehicles are all different from one another. I have a couple motorcycles too. Here are the inhabitants of our stable, past and present.

I taught myself how to do a performance alignment of my Z. I wanted the camber, caster, and toe angles to be set precisely and the Nissan tech just wouldn't do it. He said, "You know, if you care that much, you should just do it yourself. It isn't that hard." At first I was really mad at this guy, but then I looked around and found that the tools I needed were not all that expensive. See my techniques described at Krane's Automotive University: Suspension.

I love performance driving. My motorsports page details my activities in motorsports.

Ever wonder about the safety of switching to synthetic oil for an older car? The link takes you to the results of my survey of car owners about their experiencies.