Stef's Big Radwood Austin Giganto-Gallery With Puffalumps and Porschelump

"Stef Schrader" (stefschrader)
02/27/2019 at 20:24 • Filed to: maximum parsh, Radwood Austin, Radwood, parsh, Puffalopnik, Puffalumps, Puffposite Lock, Porsche, Porschelump

ACK IT’S WAAAARM

The hype train is real. Radwood is actually good. I’m usually not big on hard parkin’, but I went to the one in Austin knowing that this would at least be a good place to show off period-correct Fisher-Price Puffalumps alongside my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! 1984 Porsche race car. Holy crap, the cars . There were so many good cars . Not just one kind of car, but a little bit of all the cars, for all kinds of uses.

The cars were good.

The Puffalumps sat on so many cars and got so many hugs that it was like a year’s worth of Puffalumping in one day. I stuck most of my arm in an F40 hole...again. There was also free Warsteiner, or as I know it, the beer from old DTM cars.

I saw a few other Oppos in the wild, too, so I figured I’d link the big gallery I did for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! back over here:

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I just...the cars. So many cars. So many. So many good cars. I have broken my brain with the cars. Cars.

Whatchu gonna do with all that puff, all that puff inside that lump?

Cars!

DISCUSSION (43)

Chuckles > Stef Schrader
02/27/2019 at 21:56

I feel like this post must have gotten lost in the sea of theme day posts. Maybe re-share it tomorrow once things have calmed down.

I'm glad that you had a good time at Radwood. I missed out on the one in Philly this year but if they do another one I might have to go.

Stef Schrader > Chuckles
02/28/2019 at 00:35

you should goooooooooo

Chuckles > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 00:37

I know, I know. I’m just over an hour from there. I’m just not always big on being social, and for whatever reason I couldn't motivate myself to go that day.

Stef Schrader > Chuckles
02/28/2019 at 00:39

Also, weird, it timestamped as 3:24 p.m. when I’m pretty sure I hit publish way after that. Eh, fixed now.

M.T. Blake > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 00:43

Radwood is the beginning of the roller skate burger joints, neon wall signs, and fake gas pumps of our generation.

Chuckles > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 00:44

Is that when you started drafting the post maybe? I think it usually just keeps that time unless you change it.

Chuckles > M.T. Blake
02/28/2019 at 00:51

That's terrifying, but probably accurate.

Stef Schrader > Chuckles
02/28/2019 at 00:53

I’ve had this thought before, too, and......meh.

I’m more annoyed by people from my generation zonking out to stupid auction prices, if we’re honest. Just go enjoy your stuff, for Pete’s sake.

Stef Schrader > Chuckles
02/28/2019 at 00:56

Possibly. I don’t remember saving it, but I did take a short break from digging through photos and build stuff to pop in elsewhere.

Chuckles > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 01:01

It’s certainly frustrating to see the cars you want selling for absurd prices. I also think that thanks to the joys of crushing student debt and stagnant wages, my (our? I dunno, I’m 33) generation won’t exactly turn into winga-dinga 2.0 because we’re mostly too broke to all buy car show quality classic cars. I buy cars to drive them, and I'm also happy in something cheap. Growing up I wanted a 911, but I've made peace with the fact that I'll never have that kind of money to spend on a car, and that's ok.

Chuckles > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 01:02

Kinja is gonna kinja. And Oppo was a busy place today.

Goggles Pizzano > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 01:04

That Alfa SZ...

Kinja'd!!!

SpeedSix > M.T. Blake
02/28/2019 at 01:08

It’s pretty impressive how quickly other mainstream websites (i.e. not Hooniverse or Jalopnik) have taken to calling 1980s and 1990s cars “Radwood Era”.

Before there was no real catch-all, and now that’s the only understood term.

Your boy, BJR > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 01:11

But what about the Cars?

SpeedSix > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 01:19

Thanks for the coverage.

Radwood show coverage everywhere else puts too much emphasis on the 1980s European models and 1990s Japanese models, at the expense of anything American. Most sites are in danger of leaning towards depicting a crossover car show between yuppies and the Gran Turismo-playing generation - I want to see a bit of everything , so your photos were refreshingly varied.

Stef Schrader > SpeedSix
02/28/2019 at 01:58

I mean, “youngtimer” was the term before in other countries, and I still need to learn German just to get youngtimer mags with 944 stuff all in there. Oh man. So much 924/944 content.

There was a youngtimer race before the ‘Ring 24H last year and I just...couldn’t......even. 944s! On the gottdang Nürburgring! Racing 944s! fdklsa;gjkdlg;jdasmk;fldaglf;dsfndok;lsgjdkl <-----that is exactly what my brain did

Stef Schrader > Chuckles
02/28/2019 at 01:58

Busy Oppo is good Oppo.

Stef Schrader > SpeedSix
02/28/2019 at 01:59

Man, I was left wanting more ‘Murica to show up. I love big broughams and I cannot lie. Also, anything that’ll rip a sweet burnout gets my instant approval.

Stef Schrader > Your boy, BJR
02/28/2019 at 02:00

the cars

oh man

the cars

they’re good

Monkey B > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 08:59

the photo viewer on the drive website is terrible. All photos are zoomed when you click on them, cutting off the edges. When you close the selected photo the page scrolls to the bottom.

Cool cars, thanks for sharing!

MonkeePuzzle > Stef Schrader
02/28/2019 at 09:33

I enjoy anyone who can have foolish fun on the internets, and this is yet another epic pic :D

Kinja'd!!!

hope things are going strong over on The Drive!

Stef Schrader > Monkey B
02/28/2019 at 13:02

I noticed this, too—the page was a lot easier to view on mobile, FWIW. They’re still porting over a bunch of things on the backend, so I’ll have to let them know there’s a bug.

Stef Schrader > MonkeePuzzle
02/28/2019 at 14:18

This might just be my favorite supercar party trick: stickin’ a whole forearm up into an F40 intake.

(please get permission before fisting other peoples’ supercars, though)

SpeedSix > Stef Schrader
03/01/2019 at 12:45

I hear of them called youngtimers in various German publications, but never heard it adopted by other countries.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Stef Schrader
03/01/2019 at 15:50

Cars are cool and Stef is also cool

Fisting intakes is my kinda hobby

bmil128 > Stef Schrader
03/01/2019 at 17:53

There you are behind the Martini 911 SC

Kinja'd!!!

Both my cars are XJs > Stef Schrader
03/03/2019 at 16:10

I’d hate to see Radwood taken over by big bucks cars even though they qualify age wise, they don’t philosophicall y... IMO Bring on the SAAB Turbo s and Subaru GL s and AMC Eagle wagons with faux rally stickers!

OTOH seeing an F40 with “antique” plates ... :) Here in WA state, I ca n get the C ollector plates for my ‘93 Cherokee , i t doesn’t qui te make it to Horseless Carriage cate gory which would truly amuse me ...

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Stef Schrader
03/04/2019 at 10:39

I see r ally duck is still reporting for duty

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Stef Schrader
03/04/2019 at 11:05

Any chance that you are going to come to the Radwood in Seattle?

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Stef Schrader
03/04/2019 at 11:17

Great coverage and love the F40 and the SZ

Huh, what’s up with the Euro-style plates...any idea if the cops are cool with those?

Stef Schrader > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
03/04/2019 at 12:22

SHE’S A CHICKEN!!!

Stef Schrader > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
03/04/2019 at 12:22

Probably not . :( No budget.

Stef Schrader > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
03/04/2019 at 12:23

Somewhere there’s a collection of photos comparing my fist to the size of various exhausts in the Porsche Museum.

Clearly, I’m not just going to touch museum cars, so that’s as far as it went, but f un was had, regardless.

Stef Schrader > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
03/04/2019 at 12:25

Those are take-offs just for show. T here’s a paper plate zip-tied to the roll cage to cover my butt. The goal is to have the 944 road-registered for good (not just on a sketchy transit permit) by the Lemons Rally in November, though.

Stef Schrader > bmil128
03/04/2019 at 12:25

Puff, too!

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Stef Schrader
03/04/2019 at 12:26

Getting down to brass tacks, fisting usually involves consent and care for well-being, so I think how you did it was pretty appropriate. .. but I’m down for permission slips, safe words, and gloved sterile hands in pipes at the Porsh Museum.

Hopefully that fist album emerges as another post.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Stef Schrader
03/04/2019 at 12:30

The chicken I assume is a he though since he’s quite clearly a rooster.

Future Heap Owner > Stef Schrader
03/04/2019 at 12:39

Shoutout to that teal Golf with the sparkle valve cover and Arizona Green Tea intake

jebidia24 > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
03/04/2019 at 15:04

FYI, the safe word is almost always “pineapple”.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
03/04/2019 at 15:53

*parsh

Stef Schrader > Future Heap Owner
03/05/2019 at 23:00

That chicken is SO good.

Stef Schrader > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
03/05/2019 at 23:02

I mean, t here’s both Rally Chicken and Cocky McCockerson there. Two birds of the chicken variety, TBH.

Stef Schrader > Both my cars are XJs
03/05/2019 at 23:33

I liked that there was a mix of both kinds of cars, but predominantly the regular cars brought by everyone. Gave people the chance to see cars up-close they might not otherwise see, but gave jaded schmucks like me the opportunity to flip out over Volkswagen pickup trucks.