Oh, snap!

CP: it’s going to need more than the purchase price in maintenance the minute that it comes home, and could be one engine revolution from a major overhaul.

I had a first-gen (1980) and have always loved these. Not a great bike even by the standards of the day: wooden brakes, snatchy throttle and wobbly as hell...but the sound and feel of that engine made was just sublime.

Kelmark GTs are fun, but this one doesn’t look particularly well-built and doesn’t have enough premium content to justify this kind of money. CP...

visceral

Not to piss on this parade, but I think that there were three (maybe four) different classes running in that race and Lester was in the highest (“Champ”). Great driving, but some of the speed differentials are hard to explain through simple setup and driving differences.

Thank you for writing this; I agree with most everything that you wrote. The shows that emphasize drama over cars are nothing more than soap operas - minus the soap. I don’t want “As The Camshaft Turns”: I want see Ed China make a clever repair, or Wayne Carini find some obscure OneOffMobile.

Struggling to understand why they didn’t just lift the cabs off the frames...

$5k a year isn’t hyperbolic...it’s probably on the low side. Many parts are unique to this model, have limited availability and are insanely expensive. Some of the more mundane parts are ‘BMW-average’ through ‘Internet’ parts dealers, but things like climate control panels are just...nuts.

Well-written, balanced perspective on this topic. I would consider myself a “purist”...but not on this topic; I’m all for closed-cockpits if research indicates that they will increase driver safety.

This looks like epic fun...and I wish I would have know about this before-hand. I don’t know we don’t discuss events such as this, and Nevada Open Road Challenge...

Because I’m at work and I don’t have time to read entire articles.

Some Dodge Viper owners have been lobbying for a Hellcat version of the American sports car, or at least an increase in performance.

Certain areas in Michigan did have inspection requirements, but dropped them after political - not efficacy-based - challenges on the notion that they were “anti-poverty”.

Thank you for your insightful post to this five-month old thread.

Horsepower, as it turns out, isn’t a drug. It’s just a status symbol.

That’s heresy here in Benchraceylvania, where power/weight and/or HP/dollar are the only things that matter. Don’t read the review and, for love of God, don’t actually drive it yourself.

2.) Middle Aged And Nice Car? Mid Life Crisis

The slogan is silly; most slogans are. Brand hate, though, is just as silly as fan-boy-ism. I have supplied software and engineering tools almost every global OEM, and they’re more the same than they are different.