As you know, my Texas based London Black Cab is for sale, and I also have an owner wanting to sell hers too in South Carolina. Here are the details – if you have interest, please use the form below or call 323.428.3748 to get in touch or comment on this post and I’ll connect you. It’s black and crocodile and has ridiculously low miles for an eighties car. I have to imagine that my cab has at least 200,000 miles on the streets of London under its belt.
“I’m in Charleston, South Carolina …my London Cab is newly painted, has a GPS, Black on Black with faux croc interior…it’s a 1984 , suicide doors, runs on propane, has about 49,000 miles on it…asking $15,000, it runs great but the battery dies if your not careful you really need to watch if you leave a light on or leave a door open it drains quickly, the air conditioning and heat work has a great sound system and video player in it!”
Having owned a black cab for a year, having AC is huge – and the battery drainage is entirely normal. The internal passenger compartment lights are taken from an age when lots of amps were pushed through robust wires to make a faint orange glow. So they use a fair amount of power, as do the running lights. Suffice it to say, make sure the doors close properly when you park.
OK, so by day, I’m a superhero helping people live in greener homes, but by night, how do I save the planet? More specifically, how do I do that in Las Vegas?
Pretty simple I utilize the three “P”s – preparation, practice, and pernicious rage. Imagine if you will that some weird nuke stuff has been put into the plot of a bad DNA apocalypse movie, and the film has gone all zombie all over. In Vegas. So, what every eco-warrior wants to know is this: what machine gun should I use for a zombie hunt. Here’s a video of me trying out a few guns.
There’s a great little warehouse nestled on the wrong side of the tracks which doubles as a gun range, and I went there after hanging out at my conference all day to release some aggression while giggling at the child-like simplicity of an automatic weapon, loosing dozens of slugs of lead into a lifeless rendering of an undead nazi.
Predictably, I messed up a little and got eaten by the paper monsters, but a rollicking good time was had by all. Except the nazi. It had been almost ten years since I had shot a very big machine gun in Vietnam, but the old magic was still there. As long as all I had to do was squeeze the trigger, and someone else put the boom boom slugs into it for me.
Oh, and when I got home, I bought a Prius. Planet of the future and the present saved.
“Are you beating Vegas?” slurs the red-faced man at the next table in Harrah’s Buffet Breakfast. My first response, “Like a red-headed stepchild” I squash between my brain and my mouth, and give an answer instead designed to indicate I am not one for conversation right now. Too much going on in my brain, and [...]
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I’ve decided to sell it. My black cab is for sale. It’s a riot – it really has been fun. I’ve enjoyed the wrestling with clutches, figuring out how to get it inspected, and show-boating about in it. Most of my friends tell me I should keep it forever, and they’re right -I’ve always wanted [...]
It’s been too long since I prodded these bitten-nail fingers over the plastic squares my dears, partly as I’ve joined a cult and partly as I’ve been floating in a sea of indecision. Without so much as a paddle or a rudder, or at least any discernible course. Lest the goog think I care less [...]
I’m sorry HSBC, but having some imaginative stoner throwing jazz noodles around the inside of some micro-wave meal of a christmas ballad with a delayed saxophone is not really getting me into the spirit of the season in which you claim call volume is higher than usual. I’ll give you call volume, how about me [...]
I’m not particularly obese by American or Scottish standards, but I’ve been dissatisfied with my body fat percentage for a while. Here’s what I did that helped me drop 15 pounds – some of it fat, some of it muscle. Stopped doing things that didn’t work for me. Basically I stopped trying to add muscle [...]
So I haggled with my wife for use of the 2008 Japanese minivan today – my mum is in town, and I can actually use 5 seats. Who would have thought I’d be using the original minivan to jump start it. Yes the 1967 Austin FX4 came to the rescue of the 41 year younger [...]
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…my London Cab is newly painted, has a GPS, Black on Black with faux croc interior…it’s a 1984 , suicide doors, runs on propane, has about 49,000 miles on it…asking $15,000, it runs great but the battery dies if your not careful you really need to watch if you leave a light on or leave a door open it drains quickly, the air conditioning and heat work has a great sound system and video player in it!”
