Slightly pedantic correction: the SR-71s used the Buick 455. Good call though.

Different Buick V8. The SR-71 used the 455 cubic inch (big block) Buick as starters. If you ever get a chance, they are a "gas" to look at. The cylinder bores are huge. You can literally stick a softball in them.

Alternate headline: The Nine Most Weirdly Practical Cars Ever And Also One Saab

Those quotes are made 100x better by being posted by "Vin" and "Diesel".

Or "bars, gold-pressed latinum."

Remember last week when we dutifully and sadly told you about the first McLaren P1 crash in America? The one in Texas? Well, it turns out the 27-year old owner had the car less than a day. It's a good reminder that if you buy a supercar, maybe take a couple of days to feel it out before going all crazy.

My opinion of Houston is biased due to the weather. I can't fairly judge Houston based on it's culture and people as I've not spent much time there.

So you're confirming that you and people like you ruined Austin? Got it. Thanks for making a great city awful. Let me know when you and your Vespa leave :)

If you were born and raised in Austin. I forgive you.

#savethewarthog

Oklahoma

How to make an impression!

Not a rocket, that's a turbojet engine. A rocket's thrust is not controllable, but a turbine has a power lever. At any rate, it's batshit insane. I like it.

For a few years I was working out of an office in Dallas (Walnut Hill & Webb Chapel) just north of Love Field. I must have seen a Beech Starship flying overhead a dozen times during that period. Probably the same plane, might have been based there.

Whelp, there goes my childhood:

Unlike NASCAR, I'd pay to see this vehicle make nothing but left turns all night doing its thing!

They squeezed in a Monza?