As someone who works in the business and has had cars stolen and cars stripped on the lot I can tell you that kind of shit happens because cops are worthless and won’t do anything to stop it. I’ve never had cops do anything to recover to recover stolen property IF they even show up to take a report.

Oh; and for reference I had pretty much let this out of my mind but what got me thinking about this was the similarity of my reaction to what you experienced. The week he left my wife and I loaded into my hotrod truck and just blasted out into the TX hill country; I don’t even remember where we went now except that it…

Last I’d heard after having another kid with a different guy and a couple divorces she was back local and had settled down and her kids where doing as ok as could be expected . As much as I’d like to make sure he’s ok I don’t think making contact would do him any good so I don’t; I can’t justify how him knowing about…

I started dating a girl the spring before I turned 21 just to kill some time before we both left for other things in the fall. A girl we both knew had a 1 month old and asked us to watch him for a few hours one night and ended up gone all night and the next day, then she would ask us to watch him overnight and be gone…

Geez man; sorry to hear that. I’m not sure what moves people to do such ridiculous shit for so little payoff.

Driving from FSAE in Detroit back to San Antonio we stopped at a gas station somewhere in central Missouri and I walked in to a scene straight out of deliverance. There was a picnic table in the middle of the gas station with old men circled around it wearing overalls and not much else playing cards and smoking and…

Had a relatively similar situation happen a few years ago and I still get chills thinking about it.

I was being silly...it seemed appropriate given the initial comment!

What are you talking about?

You should also keep in mind the ‘95-02 Continental ran the same DOHC all aluminum V8 as the Mustang GT Cobra. Compared to other FWD Luxury vehicles of the time (or ANY Luxury cars of the time) that was a stellar motor.

My shop regularly buys airbags from LKQ and other large suppliers; we deal in reselling wholesale vehicles and as such used parts are a staple of our shop. We check vehicles for open recalls before resale and fix whatever can be done but honestly it never even occurred to me to check used parts for recalls; you can…

I’ve never seen one setup like that but the buckets would be cool! I saw in another post you mention an ‘81 C10; I’ve got a an ‘84 C10 I’ve autocrossed with a bench; I’ve been told more than once “you need to keep all hands and feet inside the truck at all times!”

Never autocrossed a car with a bench seat, ehh? The arm out the door isn’t for chilling, its to hold him in the car.

I’m a white parent in a Texas city raising a young boy (meant to say I’m not some liberal SJW, I’m just a normal parent) and to be honest I’d like to know the same thing. I’m not going to lie and say I haven’t said and done a lot of things I regret but how do these parents not want their children to be better than…

Christopher may be the last driver to ever do what he did; to compete in so many upper level divisions so successfully for such a long period of time is truly remarkable. The racing world is a worse place without him and it’ll never be the same.

I once spent a night rebuilding a set of VW half-shafts in a Motel 6 sink in Flint Michigan so our car could (attempt to) make a race the next day.

Having owned a BHPH lot, financed customers through Santander/Westlakes and the like AND having been in some aspect of the car business for 15 years now I can tell you the problem is 3 fold.

FSAE! A team that amounted to three regular group members and a couple of irregular members decided in December of ‘03 we where going to build a car to compete in the ‘04 FSAE event in Pontiac Michigan. The ground work had been laid before December but the reality is we didn’t start in earnest until December and the…

The fixes for NASCAR’s issues are overwhelmingly simple and straight forward and none of them involve points or cutting up races into new and fun to eat shapes.

Lawsuits aren’t going to change anything, regulations aren’t going to change anything and corporate policies aren’t going to change anything. The time has come to stand up to corporations and their lackeys; people have to choose to tell the powers that be they won’t take it anymore. That passenger had it right and if…