I have always been the type of person that wants to make sure that my cars last a long time and living in Michigan I have a harder time with this, especially with the salt that they use on the roads in the winter, talk about breaking down the undercarriage ...

Recently I was asked by my friends at Collective Bias to check out a company that I had never heard of in the past Weathertech.com. This company was an interesting one because the are completely American. The actually had been making floor mats for cars in the United Kingdom but ...

I’m a fortunate chap, in that the organisation I work for are kind enough to give me a courtesy vehicle; which is why I wasn’t too bothered when a drunk driver hit a line of parked cars on my street the other week, shunting each of them back into mine ...

It’s no secret that we GeekDads love our iPads. Recently Don Martelli gave us Five Reasons Why the iPad Was Made to Keep Parents Sane and Matt Morgan also gave us another Five Reasons Why New Parents Should Buy a Tablet Now. I got mine when version 2 came out ...

So progress on the car is once again moving. I’ve got two weeks until my youngest son’s 1st birthday, and I think I’ve got enough time to finish the toy. If you’ve been following the previous posts (Part 1 and Part 2), you’ll know that I’ve cut the fenders and ...

To any passers-by, we must have looked like idiots. Me on one side of the car, my colleague on the other, fingers gripped under the wheel arch as we try desperately to lift it and move it two feet to the right. Yes, I said lift a car. TWO FEET ...

Last spring, when chatting with Britax about their car seats, it came out in the conversation that, in a previous career, I had taught physics. An idea was hatched:  I could travel to NY and help them to introduce a new technology in their car seats by doing some fun physics ...

I’m driving my 2003 Mazda MPV back from the shop and I almost turn around and take it back. Sure they’ve put in a new catalytic converter and fixed the brakes, but a new problem has cropped up. What’s all the whirring and buzzing, what’s that grinding sound? ...

14-year-old Ashton Stark (any relation to Tony, perhaps?)–with a little help from his dad–converted this lovely ‘72 VW Beetle into a hybrid electric* car. But don’t let the nine golf cart batteries fool you: this car’s got some power. From Treehugger: According to the Argus Observer, the high school sophomore from ...

I’ve been playing around with Radio Controlled cars for most of my life. Recently, this has seen something of a resurgence. For me this has been because I’ve wanted to introduce my kids to the hobby. But more generally there seems to be increasing interest in the building, tuning and ...