Car Guy Speaks

 How to you win at cars and coffee?  You win by knowing it's not a competition. For years I have judged my cars by the praise I received,  photos taken, magazine articles published.   It started innocently enough.  Just a surge of pride and validation when other appreciated what I had built, found or bought.   Whomever sits here may be the coolest car guy in the world. Sir, I envy you.  As I grow old  I face many existential truths,  like that my cars cannot be perfect. I can't afford perfection but also lack the patience  to find it anyway.  I certainly know I can't buy new cars,  that's just too stressful waiting for the value to drop.  So what they hell do you do when your a mentally ill car-guy?   One of the few Loti with a back seat. You can shove a very small child back there. .   Get over yourself, and enjoy being an enthusiast in a different way.   Expand your appreciation for oth...

I wrote this as an homage to my car, but it's also a sale's pitch now I guess. It's currently for sale at Glenn Shelly Auto Consultants  Seems my cars all spend a little time at Simply Clean in Lafayette CO. Tyler, the owner applied a full hood PPF as well as a ceramic coat to preserve the paint's condition. My S52 powered M-Coupe is the slowest variant of the M-Coupe. It cost less than the faster versions, but It has other qualities of its own.  So I spent less coin, comparatively, and still achieved total immortality and dominance at Colorado Cars and Coffee .     Simply Clean applied  "temporary tattoos" that have sufficiently offended so many enthusiasts.  These helped distinguish my car from the hundreds of other silver M-Coupes in town.   I always wanted a Dinan-badged car, probably due to something I saw or read in my youth.   Glen Shelly   found me  an excellent example of a Dinan-badged M-Coupe locally with just 40,000...