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A few months ago, I wrote a post about mobile geekiness: installing cool computational or otherwise electronic gizmos in your car. Whether it’s just for the sake of doing it, or the stuff serves some practical purpose, it’s still fun. I still kinda miss it.

I think doing car electronics projects will always be near the top of my “list of things I’d do if I had unlimited fundage and all the time I ever wanted”. Stephen, N5AC’s super-sweet install job is what has me thinking about this again…and a nice install it is! I can’t say I really dig the antenna farm growing off the top of his Chevy Avalance (I go for the discreet antennae myself) but damn, I do like the look of that interior.

So how about some groupthink? I know we’ve got some geeks lurking in here, even if you’re closet-geeks, so it’s time to put those thinking caps on. Punch that comment link and tell me what you’d build if you could install any gadget you wanted in your car. And make it look classy. Would you go for GPS nav? Internet connectivity? A WiFi-syncable music library? Roadcasting?

Of course, now that I think about it, maybe doing the electronics projects and tinkering with my car isn’t what I miss. Maybe having any practical capacity to do it is. But even passions have to be prioritized, and I don’t count it unfortunate at all that there are other, stronger passions for this geeky curiosity to take a backseat to. Long-live the Important Things in Life!