Top Story: "Nos Energy Drink, Two Betties For The Price Of One"
Are you preparing for heartbreak this Valentine's Day? Did your girlfriend just dump you for a dark, brooding, angry-at-the-world, 30-year-old, tattooed rocker guy that still lives at his parents' house in Malibu? No? That was just us? Damn.
We may have suffered tragedies of the heart this February, but thanks to NOS and this very magazine, April's issue will look quite promising. Newsstand editions of Super Street will come packaged with a life-sized poster of the two bodacious babes that won the new Naughty NOS Girl Model Search. We don't know about you, but we're going to heat transfer the photos to some big-ass pillows so that we can curl up with our own Naughty NOS Girls at night.
When you get this new Naughty NOS Girl Poster in your hot, little hands, we want you to do something with it, take a picture of whatever it is you did and then send that photo to us. We'll even go and run the best photo right here in this very magazine (and send some cool stuff, too). Be creative, be funny, but whatever you do, for the love of God, don't cut a hole in the "special lady parts" and stick your bishop through there. We just don't want to see that...
"Say What?"
Now, it is true, we do put a lot of Honda products in the book. But as we've told you before, Honda pays us $1 for each H-car we feature. What would you do in our position? Yeah, we thought so. We have to pay the beer tabs somehow. Our regular salaries just don't cut it."
Brent Romans
("TSW's Touring Car for the SEMA Show,"Super Street, February 1998)
Unlimited SLIP
Justin Kaehler
Maybe I Should Just Buy A Jdm Van
Getting Old Is A Pain
I forgot how much of a pain it can be to own an older car.
I've owned my Integra for almost 10 years now, and I do sincerely love the thing. But prior to coming over to Super Street, I more or less neglected my car. Right after I spent a crapload of money rebuilding the engine, I took on a job that allowed me to hop into a new car a week. So I parked my 'Teg for a few years and stopped worrying about paying for gas, changing the oil or fixing anything. Every seven days I got a pampered, carefully-maintained new car, and life was great.
I have since lost my fleet of press cars, but I don't miss them (much). I really do enjoy driving my old 'Teg, but I'm now noticing that everything on the car is breaking. The engine and suspension are good, but my ICU (G2 people know what I'm talking about) is on the fritz, rendering my intermittent wipers and rear defroster useless. The light bulbs in my dash are burning out; my left turn signal is fried... I can go on and on. To make matters worse, just two days prior to writing this editorial, my radiator decided to spring a leak on my way home from work. I now can't drive my car without it overheating.
I am now faced with this dilemma: Do I continue to throw money into this 'Teg, or do I buck up and buy something new? As an almost 30-year-old married guy with a decent job, I should maybe drive something newer than a 15-year-old slammed Honda. I recently drove a MazdaSpeed3 up to SEMA (about a year after I drove one at Laguna Seca) and found it to be quite an impressive machine. This five-door hatch is faster, handles and stops better than my Integra ever will, and it comes with a full factory warranty to boot. Do I buy something like the MS3, or do I "act my age" and buy a softer luxury car-preferably one with an automatic?
Hmmm... maybe I should just buy a JDM van (hello, Mazda5) and start that U.S.-based JDM van craze myself.
Justin Kaehler justin.kaehler@sourceinterlink.com