a skinny fellow named Wilkins who vaguely resembled Kermit the Frog

And cans of soup.

Must be, Volvo S60's built in South Carolina start with 7JR

From what I’ve heard he was more the “polite but obsessive” kind, rather than the outright arsehole kind.

Henry Manney III for Road & Track in 1964 famously called the E-Type “the greatest crumpet catcher known to man.”

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I’m sure Pirie expected her story about Moss having her out to Silverstone but not even thinking about providing her transportation home after all the trains stopped running was supposed to be a funny example of Moss’s single mindedness, but I couldn’t stop thinking about how that would not fly today.

Stirling. Find+replace ‘Sterling’ with Stirling.

It has to be dozing off.  Even if your eyes close for just a second, you never really know how long you’ve been out, and know that if it happens again you could die or kill someone else.  The handful of times it’s happened to me, when I realize that I just woke up, it’s the most jarring and adrenaline-inducing…

If any of this actually worked, it would be so heavily classified it would never see the light of day. The fact that these have been filed as normal public patents should tell you something.

Granted, but the overall winners are the ones credited with “winning” Le Mans in the record books.

Le Mans has multiple classes.  Andretti won his class.

“second overall”

Mario celebrated wins at the Daytona 500, Le Mans 24, Indy 500 and Sebring 12, plus a Formula 1 world championship, a USAC title, and three IndyCar championships.

“Posi” rear-ends. I know it started as a brand name but people started using it to denote limited-slip diffs pretty regularly. Haven’t heard it much lately other than older guys talking about old cars.

My dad talked about how the fastest cars had “A Four on the Floor and a Fifth under the Seat”.

“Jacked up” hasn’t been a thing for decades, it seems. I mean, the term still exists but it means something completely different

All the carburetor slang is gone (mostly for good). things like 6-pack, double pumper, dual quad, and the rest.

I only ever hear the older guys say “idiot light” now, if ever.

didn’t read the article and posted 3 on the tree, lol