My trip to the bookstore

I scored a few books today, found a book store that is half automotive content, half manga porn content. Its the drift club on one side, and dirty old men on the other.
Anyway to the books. Lots of good tuning information, product catalogs etc etc.. Today I am off to Up garage to look for used junk and going on a tour of Tamon Design, Saturday I am back at my friends shop, then Sunday off the a RX7 car show/meeting event in Chiba.

mmm vodka, the scentless alcohol..

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonis...af-8a4bec2845b3

I thought geez, only in Canada, but it happened in the US to..

Greddy bankrupt...

Tis all the news... Lots of links to it on google.
Lots of people think its nothing and they will recover, but if you look back at Apexi's bust a few years back, they were never the same company afterwards, their skunkworks , "AP Engineering" was dissolved and with it a lot of new innovation and products, along with lots of contributions to some pretty famous one off cars, like scoots 4 rotor, ap did the power FCx2 configuration for them. Their event sponsorship has fallen off alot as well. They also narrowed back their parts coverage to only things that made them decent profits.
Talking to some friends pretty deep in the Japanese tuning shop business, some are doing ok, some are starting to hurt.
The main reasons seem to be :
1) High fuel prices
2)Globally produced knock offs
3)increasingly tighter emissions and fuel standards on new cars
4)Mail order bulk parts houses
Discuss.

Its Snowing..

Man, Aug 31st and its snowing here....Looks like I missed summer for this year..Outside temp is 0.8 deg C.. Lame. (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Good used vehicel sites/places in US?

Anyone have some good sites or know good places for trucks?...
Looking for an 89-93 dodge cummins turbo diesel 4x4 auto ext cab in particular...