All awesome, but I’ll stick to the (slightly) more affordable Tamiya versions.

I read an article on it once.

Pow, right in the feels Torch. My earliest gearhead memory is standing on the floor of my grandfather’s Model T(this is in 1996 on back roads mind you), helping him row through the gears. I’m way too excited to watch you raise your son vicariously through the lens of press cars.

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I’m glad you explained what competitive parking was, because I seriously envisioned: “That’s a pretty good parking job, between the lines on the sides, looks level, front is close to line, but not over, but you’ve got 12.6 feet on the left, and 12.7 on the right. Watch a professional work, junior!”

So as I understand it, this is the market positioning of the small British street-legal trackday car makers:

Found on ebay:

2015 USAF Ghostrider Gunship
One of a kind
Babied...never tracked or raced...never wintered.
New wings and recently replaced OEM flight crew buckets.
$50 million OBO.
No tire kickers, no mavericks.

:O I made Jalopnik?! Very cool, thanks for the love! Here’s a few pictures, too.

My dad didn’t bust his ass dodging the draft so you could ask me questions like that.

For the last 20 years, I’ve been playing in the Abilene Philharmonic, and whenever I’m in town (I live in Austin), I spend my free time out at Rister Park, smoking cigars and watching the show. I’ve gotten some pretty good spots out there, including this E-4 and this P-8. And here’s a Dyess Bone for good measure.…

Visibility is similar across full-face helmets. It’s minimally mandated at 105 degrees to each side and we humans can only use 90 degrees of that.

THIS. Jalopnik needs more of this, and this would have made a great reality show!

I don’t get it, Dodge has some of if not the best ads on tv:

You have been lied to your whole life.

It was actually considered out-dated even before Pearl Harbor. That being said, the Russians used it to great effect in the air to air arena and especially in the air to ground category. What interesting about that is that it was horribly suited to both in the European theater.

Man I love the P-40 too, always have. And you’re completely right, Op. Torch and the following campaign is completely overlooked for the most part (or at least in comparison to Op. Overlord, conflicts in Italy, the island hopping campaign, etc.).

The P-40 was outdated fairly quickly and was at a bit of a disadvantage not only in the Pacific theater vs. Japanese Zeroes but also in the high-altitude air battles over Europe. And yet it was a pretty good looking fighter, gave us the fantastic Flying Tigers livery, and was pretty reliable in CAS roles.

Agreed, it's the only theory I'm willing to support.

The S550 Mustangs

Elon Musk envisions self-driving cars being taken to their logical conclusion: crashes eliminated and drivers outlawed. After all, "You don't want a person driving a two-ton death machine," says Musk.