Autocrosses and open track days are two different things, though. I want to see an EV that will do a full 20-minute lapping session, charge in 20 minutes, and be ready to go again. All weekend.  That doesn’t exist yet.

I can see your point on Zanardi... but that’s just how the guy is. He will legitimately tell you that if he hadn’t lost his legs, he would never have won those gold medals in the Paralympics. He is THAT glass half full. When I worked for one of his team’s sponsors in 2001, it was Alex that gave the tour of the…

Weren’t they always? I mean, huge multi-national companies like Toyota and British-American Tobacco decided it was too expensive to run an F1 team. Red Bull, on the other hand, has TWO of them.

Did you also hear his voice as you read this, or was it just me?

I wasn’t the only one to have these, right?

Maining because it’s dual clutch not single. DCT = Good. SMG = Bad.

In fact... there’s only 36 of them. So, if you spend some time on this page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_250_GTO) I’d bet you can reverse engineer this car’s owner.

Who knows... $50 says the guy who owns the 1964 GTO commissioned this one-off! The folks who own original GTOs are people like Rob Walton (son of Sam Walton), Nick Mason (drummer for a small band called Pink Floyd), David “WeatherTech” MacNeil, Ralph Lauren...  You know, the types of people who could call Ferrari and…

In my form of endurance racing (The VERY low end, 24 Hours of Lemons and ChampCar), I share the car in 7 hour to 24-hour endurance races with two other guys and my wife. It is no big deal, and there are no comments, no quarter given, and no discrimination either. When the helmets are on, you can’t tell which driver is…

Because the whole car is a modern take of THIS car. A 250 Gran Turismo OMOLOGATO. #7.

1957 Beetle with a more than mildly warmed up engine was at 252.

Holy Crap, I had one car (not a daily, sadly) at 252 points and another at 382! Yes, I love cars.

You do not need to own a business to lease/buy a car north of $50K. 

We’re using a kit with a tubular subframe and a bell housing adapter plate from Ecotecmiata.ca.

The issue with the swaps (and I’d love a K-swap, myself) is the kits themselves aren’t cheap. Even if you can get a $300 K20 or K24, the swap itself will still set you back $5,000 unless you’re handy with both a welder and geometry.

Short nose crank issues are only on the early 1.6 engines. I agree with the above comment that cites ‘94 as the sweet spot.

My Volvo has the same thing.

I like your wife.  How my wife lets me race: When I finish my stint in the race car, I slide the seat forward, and help buckle her in.

I like your collection. Nice and eclectic, with some solidly chosen classics there, and a truck you can bounce off of a mountain.

We called State Farm about classics. Maybe it was just our agent, but they seemed overwhelmed by our needs. We have about 12 classics, 3 summer cars and 3 what I’d call “year ‘rounders.” It’s only me and my wife. They said they couldn’t handle it. They really lost it when they couldn’t find a 1934 Borgward Hansa 1100…