A Day with Will – Mustache Day

April 14, 2009. Sounds like a good day for a mustache. After letting my beard go rampant for a few weeks- it was time to see if I could hang in the world of upper lip exclusive facial hair. My upper lip has never had a solo show. It feels funny. In college I sported the chin strap, the goatee, and some massive side burns. It was time to push into un-charted territory. Immediately things were different on Mustache day.

People assumed I was a non-english speaker. I am an exclusive speaker of English- I fought with espanol for a few year, but could never get beyond being able to do a really authentic sounding double “rr” sound. That’s neither herre, norr therre…

Mustache day has come to a close. So for the dude at Tacos Mexico who clearly heard me talking to my friends in english- but asked me for my order in spanish- thank you. For the bro at Dodger’s stadium who asked me in spanish about my video equipment. At least I think he asked me about my video equipment? Thank you too. You made mustache day memorable. 

I think I’ll stick to beards and burns.

Here are some photos from the day that was, Mustache day. 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS spotting, Nissan EV prototype, and blue eyes for Kelly.

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2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS camped outside of Dodger’s Stadum

Hope the Nissan folks didn’t mind me scoping out this for a few.

Muscle car revival theme from Detroit? Recessed headlights, grilles, suicide slit front windshields. Front hood cowl.

Bug splat

On pet peeve with GM- is their badging. Its impossible to forget this is a GM product- due to the badges on every side of the car. The obnoxious GM square badge on the front fender is lame. We get it already. As if the styling alone wasn’t enough of a cue. This is clearly not a European or Japanese car. Plus the Chevy badge on the grille looks like it was taken off a Silverado tail gate- its massive.

No too over-done Super Sport badge.

After being able to drag race and drive the 2010 Mustang Shelby GT500 on the road for 80+ miles- I really want to drive a new Camaro for comparison. Stylistically, I like the heavy body lines, flared rear fenders, and square back of the Camaro and the Dodge Challenger. Its just too big though. Too much mass for the sake of muscular design. 

The reason for being at Dodger’s Stadium. The Nissan EV-2 prototype. Note the lightning/electricity themed grille.

Housed in a third generation, Japanese (right hand drive) Nissan Cube. The production EV-02 will be a hatchback.

Battery gauge instead of a gas gauge. Powered by lots of batteries similar to laptop batteries.

100+ mile range on a full charge. Fully Electric.

Dodger’s Stadium is a very cool and historic place. Too bad I can only think about flogging a Camaro and a Challenger for comparison to the GT500

Familiar site, my S14’s shift knob. Time to drive to StreetFire’s downtown office and edit.

My eyes are blue sometimes. I miss you Kelly.