Month: June 2026

✦
Rusted classic muscle car parked inside a weathered wooden barn in a desert ghost town at sunset, lit by oil lanterns AuDHD / Neurodivergency

The COPO 9561 Was Never Supposed to Exist

In 1969, Chicago Chevrolet dealer Fred Gibb used GM’s internal fleet ordering system to build 427 cubic inch Camaros that corporate policy explicitly prohibited. Frank draws a parallel between Gibb’s approach and navigating systems as a neurodivergent person, arguing that understanding what rules actually protect, rather than simply following them, is the difference between compliance and genuine reading comprehension.

Read More »
A man kneels while connecting network cables in a home server rack beside a desk with monitors and coding on screen AuDHD / Neurodivergency

The Homelab Is Not the Point

A hobbyist reflects on maintaining an extensively over-engineered home server setup that far exceeds the demands of its nominal purpose, arguing that framing the project as infrastructure for something else…

Read More »
White Ford Talladega 428 muscle car driving on a banked speedway track Muscle Cars

1969 Ford Torino Talladega

There’s a certain kind of legend that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t growl at you from a showroom floor or dare you to look away. It earns its place quietly, through purpose and precision, through doing exactly what it was…

Read More »
Classic maroon Dodge Challenger R/T with black stripes parked on a rural road at sunset Muscle Cars

1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi

There are cars that arrived at exactly the right moment, and cars that arrived one moment too late. The 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi sits squarely in that second category, and somehow that makes it more compelling, not less. It…

Read More »
White 1969 Camaro Z/28 with black racing stripes driving on a curving track Muscle Cars

1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28

There’s a version of the Camaro story that gets told a lot, and it usually involves drag strips, big blocks, and the kind of horsepower numbers that make insurance actuaries reach for the antacids. That story is true. We’ve already…

Read More »
Weathered classic black muscle car parked on a dirt road in a ghost town at sunset, with desert mesas in the background Muscle Cars

1968 Shelby GT500 KR

There’s a moment in the history of the muscle car era where a name stops being a badge and becomes a statement of intent. By 1968, “Shelby” was one of those names. Carroll Shelby had already rewritten what an American…

Read More »