Built underneath and under the hood, too. It was featured in Car and Driver’s shootout of all the street legal vehicles (factory or tuner) that they thought might have a crack at 200 mph. The Hammer didn’t quite get there, but impressed them as a well sorted car in the 180 mph class that offered comfort and confidence…

Customized vehicles that make a highly personal statement are iffy in the market even if the builder’s ideas are good, and most of these are not good. T he Corvair vans were handsome little things, and pretty much everything I can see here that isn’t factory is a step backward.

Her security detail probably has opinions about this too. It is a safe bet that an attractive female top-echelon-of-A-listers inspires a few cuckoos to get into the Cocoa Puffs.

A big part of the interest in the Manhattan Project was the personalities involved.

From what I’ve read of Groves, Brian Dennehy is an inspired choice.

This, of course, raises the question: how did he know how to build the first atomic bomb we saw in the intro?

Steve Earle is often a genius and a lot of his stuff is as country as lead poisoning from radiator moonshine, but if he’s going to be the gatekeeper of such matters, the genre will need reinforced hinges on the exit doors.

Let’s recalibrate this amount of money. After paying the tax man, I could kickstart a couple of scientific endeavors I believe in, turbocharge the endowments of a couple of specific scholarships, pay off every mortgage in the extended family, buy a good example of every car I really want and convert a disused…

 loads of expensive, advanced materials

Was he actively carrying this grudge the whole time -- like, going around grumbling about it to anybody who would listen -- or did it just come back?

Yep.  Do your research on both the price of cars and the price of money and compare actual numbers from various lending options.

Stumbled across this today:

truck’s ad noted ‘automotive value authority’ Facebook pegs a value range for the model between $19,664 and $24,031

If you fancy a CUV, buy a station wagon.

Sure, it’s just trading the devil you know for another devil you know, but this makes me think silly thoughts about rotary engines...

There’s a difference between “hard to work on” and unnecessarily fragile and complex

Just wait ‘til he realizes that different departments can compare notes... and that if he makse enough of a pain of himself in enough states, it might attract the interest of prosecutors in the no-parole Federal system.

According to the ad, this CR-X was purpose-built for drag racing. Despite that, the seller claims, it could be set up for autocross or even be made street legal.

J-trucks are still readily available, but you’ve got to well and truly let the moths out of your wallet for a good one... 

I keep forgetting about the 400, which was sort of a 351 Cleveland (minus the good aspects) and with some issues of its own, in a stroker version for big cars.