Loved OutRun. Thing I remember most was the noise the cabinet made when you crashed & the steering wheel shook side to side.

Engineering fun-fact: everything in the universe is elastic to some degree. Drop a feather on a diamond and at least on a molecular scale, it’ll crush the diamond.

[smiling while shaking head]

Eh, maybe someday. Right now I literally just got back from picking up a junkyard New Venture NV1500 to eventually replace the one in mine that’s currently eating itself alive, and after investigating a scraping noise up front the other day the decision has been made to completely replace the front brakes; everything…

I just want a tach for my manual trans ‘98 Chevy S10 pickup.

I kinda liked it right up until I read that it was used as a plow truck.

Actually that is a Thing; they’re known as prerunners & Class 1400. Professional offroad race teams build up production pickup trucks with much of the same technology as their race vehicles, but still maintain their street legality, doors, windows, and interiors for use as racecourse scout vehicles to mark locations…

Robby created SST with the intention of rekindling the spirit of the late great Mickey Thompson’s MTEG Off Road Grand Prix indoor stadium races of the ‘80s and ‘90s. It was the same concept as before: put way too many vehicles with way too much horsepower in way too small of a space, and see who’s leading when the…

I think I paid, like $3. You couldn’t beat that with a stick.

Robby would probably laugh about it. Creed’s shown some huge talent since graduating through the local short course ranks (earning the nickname “The Prodigy”) and into the PRO classes a couple years ago, and Robby’s kinda been taking him under his wing. He co-drove Robby’s Trophy Truck at last fall’s Baja 1000, and…

Ohlins multi-adjustable front dampers and Penske multi-adjustable rear dampers

OK, now you’re taking me back. MegaRace came bundled with the first Packard Bell PC my family bought in, like, 1994 or ‘95 when I was about nine, so it holds the distinction as the first PC racing game I ever played (closely followed by Papyrus’ original NASCAR Racing, which is poetic as I spend most of my time these…

“The world’s cutest headbangers”, quoting an interview video with them I came across on YouTube awhile back.

I was raised in East Troy from about 1 year old when my parents moved from Milwaukee. You can pretty much see one end of town while standing at the other, and even growing up around motorcycles & family dirt bike trips, I really had no idea Buell/EBR existed so close by until shortly before the Harley killing.

I think it’s still available on GoG.com. I got it to run on my custom-built gaming PC but just barely; it couldn’t see my Logitech G27 wheel and had no idea what to do with my nVidia GTX660 GPU, so I had to play in mega-lo res software rendering.

I thought the same thing when I first played Ratbag Games’ Powerslide way back when. A worldwide nuclear holocaust following the complete collapse of the planet’s ozone layer has bands of feral subhumans racing cars that they found/cobbled/”acquired” on tires that’ve, what, just been sitting dormant for years on the…

I was just about to say, “wasn’t this in that goofiest-crap-on-the-’ring video from not too long ago?”

I have tears of joy in my eyes from looking at these pictures.

I have a ‘98 2.2L 2WD Dime with a 5-speed and it is an absolute rockstar. Like Atomic said below, it’s stone simple to work on (although admittedly the top end of the engine isn’t as accessible as you’d imagine) and does everything I ask of it. Not quickly or enthusiastically, mind you, but reliably and enjoyably.…

For a second there I thought that was Nick Isenhouer’s famous “Bro-Dozer” Class 1400 truck...