Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic: Sample of Contents

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Introduction - What it Means to be a Car Guy

1. How Cars Imprint On You Like Bodysnatchers
2. The British Piece of Crap
   (or, This Is Your Brain On Adolescence)
3. So Why Do Men Love Cars Anyway?
4. Bugs, Bombs, Cars, and Guitars
   (Damn It, How Cool Do Your Parents Have To Be?)
5. Why Are So Many Guys Into Working On Their Cars?
6. Actual Useful Stuff: Tools of the Trade
7. Why I Don't Fix Cars for Other People
   (Part I: Bad Luck With Friends' Volkswagens)
8. The Lure of Older Cars
9. The Volkswagen Bus, The Idiot Manual, and the Great Southern Migration
10. The First of Many BMW 2002s
11. Actual Useful Stuff: Car Won't Start
12. Notes from Texas: Hen's Teeth and Redneck Wind Chimes
13. Northward Ho, Alex, and Bertha
14. Das Coupe (My 1973 BMW 3.0CSi)
15. Restoration and Why It Makes No Freaking Sense
16. Coupe Spare Parts
17. Yale
18. Broad Human Connection Through Ridiculously Specific Shared Interest
    Steve and the Z1
19. Driving Wicked Fast
20. Actual Useful Stuff: How to Make Your Car Dependable
    (Well, More Dependable)
21. The Madness of Buying a Budget Roadster
22. Siegel's Seven Car Rule
23. Discovering Classic Car Insurance
24. The Frog-Faced Interloper
    The 1982 Porsche 911 SC Forces The Garage Issue
25. The Garage Gets Built and Enables All My Worst Tendencies
26. Why I Don't Fix Cars for Other People
    (Part II: More Bad Luck With Friends' Volkswagens)
27. A Chapter About Me and How Fixing Broken BMWs Makes Me Whole. Really.
28. Of Klingons and Kluges
    Fixing The Porsche's Oil Return Line
29. When Cars Attack
30. The Rhythm of Repair
31. Overhaul THIS (Actually, Don't)
32. The Coming of the Asteroid
33. The Z3 M Coupe and Eva Mendes's Butt
34. Actual Useful Stuff: Shock and Awe, Strut Your Stuff
35. The Car Count Hits Double Digits
36. Alpha Male Behavior Among Car Guys
37. Actual Useful Stuff: What to Buy (Classic Cars)
38. The Thrill of the Chase: Walking Away From A Daily Driver
39. Actual Useful Stuff: What to Buy (Daily Drivers)
40. The Thrill of the Chase
41. My Increasingly Decrepit Flesh
42. Why I Don't Fix Cars for Other People
    (Part III: Bad Luck With Friends' Subarus)
43. The Best Rhythm of Repair Example Ever
44. An Econobox for Firebird Boy
45. Vintage at the Vineyard: Home Among the Car Guys
46. Actual Useful Stuff: Getting a Cool Car Cool
47. I Don't Get to Date 18 Year Olds
48. Some People are Much More of a Whack Job Than You
49. The Whack-A-Mole Maintenance Model
50. The Bluefish Races
    (or, "Wanna drive?")
51. The Torch is Passed
52. Actual Useful Stuff: Stuckness, For Real
53. The Mad Dash
54. Thoughts on Refrigerators, Reliability, and Why You Can't Go Back
55. Actual Useful Stuff: Shake Rattle and Roll
56. The Porsche Passes
57. Why I Don't Fix Cars for Other People
    (Part IV: This Time, It's Personal)
58. Why I Don't Fix Cars For Other People. Really. No, Really.
59. When Cars Die

Epilogue

Art Credits

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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