@VMA1T: yeah but GM was guilty of putting all those badges on in the case of the SS, not the owners. Laughable, some of the stuff that badge got slapped on.

I just spent 2 hours last night doing a clay bar treatment to our 97 Viper hood...felt like 5 minutes in the presence of "god" and my uncle's mint 77 trans am (silver with giant flaming chicken) was 10 feet away.

@humjaba: fire is awesome, and at least there's no 20 minute cleanup for the fire like a nitro car

@meatbag_pussrocket: jet cars don't shake contrete grandstands like they do at Indy every fall.

24000 hp is less than four nitro dragsters isn't it (at about 8000hp per)?

24000 hp is less than four nitro dragsters isn't it (at about 8000hp per)?

hibernation ends soon.

I hope he doesn't try to take it through an automatic car wash. It will come apart a lot more quickly than it took to put together.

Renault can't be the sole inspiration. What about:

1986 Dodge Daytona Shelby. Huge, but soft, bolsters and perfect padding.

@exartist: Bumblebee Tuna

Is this where all the "merger of equals" hot air ended up?

Lincoln Town Car was Motor Trend's Car of the Year in 1990. Maybe she's just a big fan.

Besides the V6 Mustangs trimmed out like GTs with burbly aftermarket exhaust that is just not burbly enough (because it lacks 2 cylinders), the other real poseurs are ones that take imports (or any car really) and debadge it and place the performance OEM rims on the car. There is a real dbag kid down the street that…

@derekste: You're definitely right, and I never mentioned safety, which in my mind means a roll cage. But I didn't think it necessary to specifically exclude bikes being that Jalops are "obsessed with the cult of cars." Although, taking the logic to the "full extreme," did you mean rocket powered rollerblades, not…

@jbownsabmw: Pretty much all the drag racers I know trailer their vehicles to the track, but on the other hand, most of them don't run cars with bodies, but rail cars and the like. Your point is well taken, but if one drives to the track every time, a tow home after a break is inevitable.

I agree with LT1...1970 and 1971 was when the most outrageous sh!t came out of Detroit, right before everything got neutered in 1972.

I can't find any photos for lack of time but the brochure for the Chrysler TC by Maserati was pretty bad/awesome...it was like thirty pages of italian craftsmen building a k-car and the brochure touts all of its "merits"...as an aside, i think the cars are pretty awesome in a novel sort of way.

I thought the NHRA had a policy about not allowing replays of crashes which took the lives of those involved in the crash.

This is definitely the future. We should all get our ears tuned to blowoff valves, high-rev diesel clatter, the 8 shifts of 9-speed automatics, and really sick high-torque driven top speeds.