Man, I need to stop watching Spike TV’s “Powerblock.” Especially the “X-Treme 4×4” and “Trucks” shows. They both leave me craving some power & a manual shifter – and just enough road\/dirt to use ’em. Awww, yeah.<\/p>\n
It also doesn’t help that this weekend they showed me the Dodge SRT-10 truck. Mmm… truck with a Viper V10 engine… yeah<\/em>.<\/p>\n I think I need to make a new edition of my famous “Driving Fast” CD compliation. I’m up to Volume 3 now; I think it’s time to do some burning – and then take a drive to see how it works out.<\/p>\n Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man, I need to stop watching Spike TV’s “Powerblock.” Especially the “X-Treme 4×4” and “Trucks” shows. They both leave me craving some power & a manual shifter – and just enough road\/dirt to use ’em. Awww, yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-and-trucks","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":255,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/17\/power-block\/","url_meta":{"origin":703,"position":0},"title":"Power Block","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've gotta stop watching Spike TV's \"Power Block\" lineup on weekends. I just wanna go out and rev up the car and race somewhere, or go off road, or buy a turbo kit and install it, or something!","rel":"","context":"In "Cars and Trucks"","block_context":{"text":"Cars and Trucks","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/cars-and-trucks\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4645,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/06\/15\/behind-wheel-1996-chevrolet-s-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":703,"position":1},"title":"Behind the Wheel: 1996 Chevrolet S-10","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing the series of Behind the Wheel reviews of cars I've owned, we now move on to the predecessor of my current car... which was actually a truck. Specifically, a 1996 Chevrolet S-10 LS Extended Cab 2-wheel drive pickup truck. 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