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The Holidays are fast upon us! Turbo's love cold air. GTR in the 6's?

Nov 17, 2016

What's up everyone? Things are heating up a bit around here.  This is my favorite time of year---the food, the drinks, football, the drinks--whoops, fall beers.  But what's really great this time of year is the cool air.  Why the cold air? No, I'm not crazy--I don't enjoy sitting in the cold.  

     What I'm talking about is your turbo.  This is it's favorite time of year.  It makes more power with the cooler, denser air.  So go out and rip on it, get after it, beat the piss out of it..whatever you call it.  Have fun.  

    Then spend some time in the garage drinking fall beers and fixing what you broke, or just doing your winter projects.  This is a time of year to reflect on the events of the year, both good and bad--and lay out plans to make next year even better.  With cars, motos, your girl/guy, whatever.  You guys see the insane numbers laid down in Vegas by English Racing in the GTR? Low, low 7s. Like 7.01 !! Crazy. Knocking on the 6s.  I wouldn't be surprised if they break into the 6s this week.  How long before the 5s?

    What we've been warming up with around here is our Ugly Christmas Sweaters.  Flying off the shelves!  Right now we have both crewneck and hoodies in several colors.  Car options currently are E30 M3, S2000, Evo X.  Evo 8/9, Rocket Bunny GTR, Civic EK, 240SX are just around the corner.  Should have them  in the store by Saturday.

    What other cars should we do?  Thinking Miata, Civic sedan, integra, RSX, maybe CRX, RX-7?

   We also have 1 mug version available, the E30.  Will have the others up soon.  Get some.  Printed on both sides, you'll never need another mug.  I mean, unless you spike your coffee and then proceed to drop and break it.  

 

-TheBeard

Tool and Dye Designs behind the scenes Fall 2016 Photoshoot

Tool and Dye Designs behind the scenes Fall 2016 Photoshoot

Oct 14, 2016

   Hard to imagine, now, today, with this crazy wind and rain storm we're in the middle of here in Seattle, but just a few days we had beautiful weather.  Cool (cold) crisp in the morning with some fog, but then the fog would burn off late morning into the afternoon.  That combined with the vividly colored changing colors of the leaves meant we had to do a photoshoot.  

     So I gathered up the boys while my daughter was at school and headed over the my Mother-in-Law's house---also the photographer.  We trekked out to several spots around her neighborhood where the trees looked stunning.  For the most part, the boys just wanted to run around and play, but we were able to snap a couple great pics and some excellent behind the scenes shots.  

     I thought it might be fun to share a few of the pictures here before we edit them too much and use in our product photos and descriptions.  I hope this is the first of many more shoots with the boys featuring www.toolanddyedesigns.com shirts---and hope to get my daughter in some as well.  I know I will cherish these moments more and more as time goes on and they grow older and too busy to spend time like this with boring old dad.  Luckily, so far at least, Soren is a car nut and I'll bet Stellan will be as well.  Fingers crossed that the enthusiasm for vehicles sticks with them!!  That's for sure something that was passed down from my father to me.  I now cherish those times spent in the garage helping my dad with his 1964 'Vette.  

 

Here's one with Watson (the Great Dane) and Soren (wearing our Kids Forged Logo T shirt).  He's just about over the pictures, even after multiple breaks for M&M's.  

Me rocking our Classic Logo T in Navy--a favorite among many favorites!

Another with Soren and I, this time both in our Forged Logo T's---and as you might have guessed, towards the beginning where he's still kind of sort of still interested in Dad's goings-on.

 

Here's little Stellan playing peekabo behind a tree.

We'll cut this Friday afternoon post short here with our Fabrication shirt!!

 

More to come!

--TheBeard

2016 Indianapolis 500....did you miss it? Replay here

2016 Indianapolis 500....did you miss it? Replay here

Jun 04, 2016

Did you miss the epic 2016 running of the Indianapolis 500? We've got the reply in full here at www.toolanddyedesigns.com Thanks to ABC.  This, the 100th running of the Indy 500, was one wild race.  Watch it and see.....no spoilers given here.  

Rock on!! 

--TheBeard