While I'm trapped in my office shipping the 2nd issue of Project Car and wondering when the *** we're going to get a website, I started thinking back to when we shot the cover of our first issue. It was in CFO Will's garage in Walnut, with Steve Demmitt shooting and this art director who ended up bailing on us a week later.

So it's getting dark and we're thinking about what to eat for dinner. Something fast and can be eaten outside so it doesn't slow down our shooting schedule. Of course, since it's Primedia, it has to be cheap too. Bam! Taco Bell. I drove the 240 there and it was getting shot, so we couldn't take that or the Civic. The rest of the cars were blocked in so Will says we should take his NSX. Let me elaborate. Will says we should take his bright yellow, '05 front-end updated, slammed on 18/19 Volks, supercharged, loud as *** '98 NSX to Taco Bell because he needs to let the battery charge up and get gas as well.

We drive up the street and his car is rumbling the windows of all his neighbors. Car alarms are going off, dogs are barking, and cats are freaking out. Well, maybe not really. But you get my point. Will pulls up to the front of Taco Bell and parks a bit crooked while taking up two parking spots right next to the handicap ramp. We go in, order about $30 worth of food and Will asks for a cup holder since we have five or six drinks and the lady ignores him. He asks again and nothing. One more time and he's getting mad, but still nothing. Finally, she responds and gets him one. You don't want a mad CFO. He says "man, F this. I'll show her" and proceeds to grab handfuls of napkins, hot sauce, mild sauce, medium sauce, fire sauce, and straws. And I mean handfuls of each of those, shoves them in the bag and we take off. Yes, off in his $80,000 supercharged NSX that's parked crooked taking up two spaces in front of Taco Bell.

 At that moment, I thought to myself. OMG, we just pulled a total Cheap Chinese move. Fellow Asians know what I'm talking about. When you're out eating with your parents and your mom is stealing sugar, chopsticks, and bottles of vinegar. Or when they have a field day at Maggiano's because it's all you can eat plus you can take leftovers home. Wear it loud and proud, my fellow cheapos.