QOTD: What Are You Doing for the Fourth?

by Tim Healey

Published: July 3rd, 2024

We're in holiday mode, so I am going to take a break from automotive-related questions and ask you -- how do you plan to spend your July 4th holiday?

I suppose some of you are off Friday, too, and some are not. For the purposes of this question, you can talk about tomorrow and/or the whole weekend.

As for me, I plan to relax and do some chores during the day on the Fourth, maybe grill out in the evening, and definitely check out the fireworks when the sun goes down.

We'll be working a bit Friday -- more on that later -- and I will be covering NASCAR for this site over the weekend.

What about you?

Sound off below.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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