This Friday we drove to Sausalito for a morning photo shoot. Marnie was driving her husband's car, a 1994 BMW 328 that she affectionally calls the "Drakkar Noir Car". It's black, two door with a loud exhaust. I always feel like doing lines of cocaine everytime I'm in it, and until today I've not liked it. But we had big tasty vanilla blendeds from the SF Coffee Bean, the sun was out, the sky was blue, we had the second INXS album playing (on the tape deck!) and I rediscovered the lost joys of the push-out rear windows on two door cars.

My old Saab 900 3-door had rear windows that could be pushed out for ventialation. With those open, and the sunroof open, you get great ventailation and you can still have a normal conversation on the highway and listen to the radio. The Drakkar Noir Car has these type of rear windows and has improved my relationship with the car immensely. Sadly my 2000 Saab 9-3 3-door does not.

On the way back we gave the youngish club-owner looking guy who was driving a very new silver Audi A6 with stylin' wheels a 7. A good match, but we think his car was a bit too "old" for him. The girl in the newish silver Golf GTI only got a 4, as she was way too fabulous for such a pedestrian vehicle. She should drive a Mercedes CLK!