Category Archives: Cars

Bernal-Based Startup Offers Digital Alternative to Passive-Aggressive Parking Notes

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

Neighbor Regina wrote up this tasty little article about CurbTxt, a new service based in Bernal Heights that provides a high-tech — and vastly more neighborly — alternative to leaving passive-aggressive notes on parked cars: Blaring car alarms, forgotten headlights, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cars, Technology | 29 Comments

Race Report: Bernal Dads Racing Team Avoids Shame During 24 Hours of LeMons at Thunderhill

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

Those grease-huffing papas from the Bernal Dads Racing Team had an excellent adventure during last weekend’s 24 Hours of LeMons endurance race at Thunderhill, and they represented Bernal Heights with honor. A few highlights: • Two of the Dads flew … Continue reading →

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Bernal Dads Have Gone Racin’ For the Weekend

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

On top of all the other fun stuff going on this weekend, the ever-manly Bernal Dads Racing Team will take to the track this weekend to participate in the 24 Hours of LeMons “Vodden the Hell Are We Doing” endurance … Continue reading →

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Memo to the Dude Who Drove This Old Jeep Up Cortland While Wearing a Leather Football Helmet

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

Does anyone know this guy? I spotted him cruising down Cortland on Saturday afternoon. If you know him, please pass along this message: “WELL DONE, SIR!” PHOTO: Telstar Logistics

Posted in Cars, Celebrity, Cortland | 8 Comments

Bernal Car Geeks Volunteer to Save Bartender’s Beloved 1965 Ford Falcon

Posted on August 1, 2012 by

Bernal Heights is the kind of neighborhood where you’ll find a group of gearhead guys from the Bernal Dads Racing Team banding together to help rebuild the engine of a 1965 Ford Falcon that one of our local bartenders relies … Continue reading →

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Bernal Dads Embark on 24 Hours of Hot, Sweaty Racing

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

As you read this now, the Bernalwood editorial team is embedded with Bernal Dads Racing, somewhere along I-5 between Fresno and Los Angeles. I’m in a truck that’s towing a race car, and we are en route to Buttonwillow, a … Continue reading →

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Parking Wisdom: Mind Your Bumpers and the Curb Cuts

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

Our fashion-obsessed friends at 7×7 recently published some useful information about San Francisco parking regulations that may be of interest to the residents of our parking-challenged neighborhood. Specifically, the question has to do with how close to a driveway “curb-cut” … Continue reading →

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Glamorous Scenes from the 2012 Bernal GT

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

The pictures tell the most important parts of this story: Last weekend a few motorheads from the Bernal Dad’s Racing Team organized the third running of the Bernal GT road rally, and it turned out to be a winning day … Continue reading →

Posted in Cars, Children and Parenting, Photography | 1 Comment

Stop! Runaway Car Collides with Wild Side West

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

It’s been a bad week for vehicular control here in Bernalwood. Last Saturday we had a car flip over on Precita, while on Wednesday a runaway car bonked into the sidewalk bench at Wild Side West on Cortland. Neighbor Teri … Continue reading →

Posted in Accident or Ill Fortune, Cars, Cortland | 1 Comment

Possibly Bernal’s Best Passive-Aggressive Parking Note, Ever

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

During a recent visit to the secret workshop of the Bernal Dads Racing Team, I spotted this note tacked to the wall. It had been left under the windshield wiper of one of the Dads’s cars, perhaps in jest — … Continue reading →

Posted in Cars, Transportation | 7 Comments

Chaos on Precita as Speeding Car Flips Over on Saturday

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Some of you may have noticed all the commotion in North Bernal late Saturday afternoon. There were a lot of sirens, and the thump-thump-thump of the Bernalwood ShadowTraffic helicopter hovering overhead. Most unhappy of all were those motorists who tried … Continue reading →

Posted in Calamity, Cars | 6 Comments

The Lost History of the Oldsmobile Dealership on Army Street

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

An interesting bit of Bernal Heights history recently surfaced on the blog of Hemmings Motor News, a national website for serious automobile collectors. As part of a regular feature on defunct car dealerships, Hemmings profiled the former Lesher-Muirhead Oldsmobile in San … Continue reading →

Posted in Cars, History | 6 Comments

Unmoved Vehicle Generates New Life on Folsom

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Neighbor Regina lives on a section of Folsom Street that does not have weekly street-cleaning parking requirements. Sometimes vehicles park on her street for a long time… so long, in fact, that enough time elapses for new forms of life … Continue reading →

Posted in Cars, Found Things, Plants and Gardening | 4 Comments