The first Cars and Coffee kicked off for the year with a great turn out, even when it was a bit chilly and rained midday. The private garages were decked out like living rooms. Even the Owner of Proky’s had a garage with the old Restaurant Sign hung up on the wall. The lots filled up before the 8am opening. With all the cars out on display, I forgot to take pictures of the Subarus in the import lot. This was also my first try at photography using a Canon T3i.

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I’ve gone through three cars and now on my fouth since I’ve started driving. During my stint with my second car before trading it off, I started dabbing in to custom head units. Not the type you can purchase at a shop, but an actual DIY custom head unit. I stumbled across sites that showed off mini, some times even full sized, PCs jammed into a car. I started purchasing parts from miniITX PCs to slabs of plastic and rigged it together. It wasn’t the prettiest thing I’ve seen but it worked. In the end, I scratched up the touch screen, which at the time, were hard to find replacements for. It still worked, but my OCD kicked in every time I looked at the scratch. I sold off parts and couple years later traded in my car.

My third car came with navigation, at first I thought it was a thing of beauty. But then I noticed things that began bugging me. The maps were inaccurate and the updates were costly. There wasn’t touch or voice control. The car itself, even though it was nice to drive, wasn’t the aggressive sportster I loved. After 20 months, I traded it in.

I now have this, the 2011 Subaru WRX STi Limited.

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