I personally met him back in 1997 for the debut of Super Speedway when he was touring with the IMAX show car and again in 2019 at a Jalopnik party in Austin for the Indycar race (the article Alanis King wrote for that event has a picture of him and I together as the lead image). His age has not made him less excited…

Here the thing that has always been bullshit about the track alteration situation with the FIA.

Consider this.

I think a lot of individuals in the United States are going to be very disappointed. R34 GT-R prices won’t come down. There’s a lot of factors at play but two of the biggest will be (1) there’s a lot of nostalgia with the R34 and (2) this is the final chance to get into a GT-R prior to Nissan moving the Skyline over…

You’ve effectively described most modern JRPGs with a NG+ option. The idea is that you won’t be - or in most cases, are actually - able to obtain all the best equipment or items in the first play thru regardless of your grind intentions. You’re to beat the game, then NG+ it, carrying over what the game allows, which…

Those trucks use GM’s ‘Iron Duke’ four cylinder that’s been around since the 1980s. They’re not the most smooth riding drive trains, as GM did not equip them with balance shafts or similar (later updates eventually got a force balancer, which cause a unique situation of requiring an in-pan oil filter element). You…

Well my first Fiero was MADE in 1983 (being a 1984 model), so technically I’ve owned one car that I really wanted from the year I was born. It was unfortunately the absolute crappiest of all Fieros I’ve owned though, and I’ve owned near every year and model.

The tail gate in all honesty is pretty strange considering Japanese market kei trucks already have the use of truck beds pretty well nailed (har har) down. Most kei trucks allow you to either drop just the tail gate or also drop both it and the sides of the bed. This is incredibly helpful in congested areas where…

For anime, the major networks are a key part of financing and production. The networks can partner with record labels and toy makers in an effort to help cushion losses. The resulting anime ends up on Japanese TV for free, which makes the idea of a paid streaming service somewhat of a challenge, perhaps.

A Pocket Instamatic was my first camera. It was given to me being very old by the time I got it and I used to have to always beg my mom to buy film for it each week when we went to the store (which was fun, being dirt ass poor and all). I took it on my first long distance school field trip, and took some of the most…

A detailing trick I don’t think a lot of people know is you can wax your wheels. And there’s actually wax designed to work specifically for wheels. Remove your wheels, prep them (you don’t want wax coming into contact with rubber tires), and go to town.

Pinstripes used to most always be hand-painted but the art of hand-painting pinstripes has been kind of “lost,” for lack of better terms. It’s not something many paint professionals are experienced with doing. Nowadays not only can you get them installed at a dealer but you can even buy all sorts of stripe kits at…

Everything except the rather loud black fender scoop that goes into that hood U screamed Lotus (or new Corvette). Something about modern Ferrari seems like they have to throw some sort of huge swathing scoop or black accent directly onto the car.

I’m thinking it was possibly spec’ed for another type screen or something more bespoke, then Ford found an off-the-shelf screen that was much cheaper with the same height and mostly same features and was like “well... let’s put a useless vertical cubby here.” That’ll be quite helpful for all the road maps I haven’t…

That’s historically been WEC, which for some reason IMSA has a difficult time understanding. Part of the whole reason why GTE Pro and GTE Am exists is that you have mostly professional drivers in GTE Pro and for GTE Am yeah there are drivers that are very much professional but you have teams such as Proton Racing…

I have driven one, and the problem with the cars is that there literally is nothing about them that is seriously worth owning other than some nostalgia for a movie that - people seem to forget - was produced well after the DeLorean company folded and many DeLoreans even new were languishing at dealers with significant…

I have not been driving cars for as long as some probably have - only since 1997, so what twenty-four years or so - but I have to say I have NEVER seen an X1/9 driving on the road. Not once. I remember trying to find one as I’ve owned plenty of Fieros and just wanted another quirky cheap quirky rear-engined car, but…

Having been there, it’s not necessarily weebs (it is a ‘town’ in Tokyo, so it functions a lot like any other place with businesses) but that it’s just massively overwhelming even for Tokyo. If you visit you really have to have a plan in place to where you want to go and what you’re looking for, and even then you’ll…

You should really try and get to Barber if you’re able. It’s incredibly fascinating. What I think really does it for me is that there are museums that are incredibly stand-off-ish in opulence, and then there are museums that are just outright hoards meant to take in everything you can. And the later is what the Barber…

1) It’s the owner of the franchise’s personal vehicle being put up for sale. That actually happens a lot more than people may realize and there are all sorts of VERY sneaky tactics behind it, such as being able to drive a vehicle on it’s MSO and then selling it as a “new” car even when used (ex: a car can have 20,000…