AuntSlappy

6/19/14

I bought a hideous bracelet that I put on the car seat handle when I take my child out. I wear it while they are in the seat.

6/17/14

C'mon Raph, this has nothing to do with being a cyclist and everything to do with being a hit-and-run dillweed. Shitheads are shitheads, no matter if they're driving a sports car, a rental, a bicycle, a unicycle, or a pair of worn-out sneakers.

6/16/14

If we want a warp drive, we have to stop wasting money on blowing each other up.

6/12/14

I had the pleasure of sitting next to the former POTUS and CIC at the Indy 500 in 2002. He and I shared some car stories and was incredibly thankful to be sitting next to a fellow Jalop instead of some lobbyist. The man just wanted to talk racing. As you can tell he also liked a good bloody.

6/12/14

Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Japan; the first real attack on Japan in almost 800 years.

6/12/14

Mathias Rust flying to Red Square in Moscow as a teenager, through the entire Soviet air defence network. Pretty amazing, if you ask me.

6/12/14

It wasn't Burt, it was Dick, and he didn't do it by himself...

6/12/14

The Rutan Voyager, non-refueled world circumference transit in 1986.

6/12/14

Rutan Voyager, around the world non-stop in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds. The wings were damaged at takeoff due to the fuel load, yet they still made it.

6/12/14

If ANYTHING was run by race engineers, the world would be a better place.

6/11/14

Agreed. I love the 787B, and it's a legend, but the banning myth is ridiculous.

6/11/14

No, it was outlawed because the plan was for Group C cars to move on to using 3.5L Formula 1 engines.

6/10/14

You beat me to it, but here are a couple more pictures - This was back when there was a true spirit of experimentation at LeMans. Weird design ideas like this weren't always based on sound technical analysis like they would be nowadays with windtunnels, computer modeling, etc., but you can't fault them for trying to…

6/10/14

Oh how I miss top-level homologation cars.

6/10/14

The Nardi Bisiluro 750 LM that was entered in the 1955 edition.

6/10/14

The Dome Zero

6/10/14

I say Renault Alpine A442b Because intake

6/10/14

I nominate the GreenGT "Hammerhead shark", which failed to turn up for Garage 56 duties last year. It was fueled entirely by hot air and dreams (although Hydrogen was allegedly also involved).

6/10/14

The Dome Zero low drag car.

6/8/14

You can see the USS Albacore in Portsmouth, NH