I too grew up outside of Boston, and I too had a buddy with a K-car. His did come in wagon flavor though, a battleship-grey '85 Plymouth Unreliant. His whole family was super-tall, so when the bench seat's slider mechanism inevitably failed, it was in the all-the-way-back position. This turned the back seat into…

10 bucks says Jamie and Adam are retrofitting flamethrowers and ejector seats to her ride this afternoon. It is the one thing they build that they'll insist be tried at home.

Yeah, that dude is sooooo not getting laid.

While we're daydreaming and giving away ponies and rocketcars, can I also request that we get rid of the assheaded sequential exit numbering system we use here in the northeast? Numbering exits based on the distance from the end of the highway makes much more sense. Not only does it do away with this nonsense of…

As a happy Elantra owner...steady as she goes, Raphael.

Right, soooooo..."the muffler."

Same here. They're a great way to get a really useful perspective on a car.

I have a 13-month old. I'll take on this, er, chore.

Good to hear y'all are okay.

2011 Hyundai Elantra offset front-impact test. I wish they'd show at least one view at real speed, just to give a sense of how quickly everything happens.

I LOL'd. Nicely done.

Authentic (-ish) Countach looks, and a Ford powertrain that's more reliable and easier/cheaper to maintain than the real deal? That's a winner as far as I'm concerned. I wonder how the performance stacks up. Did he exactly copy the suspension setup, or tweak it for driveability/performance...?

"I get the pride and joy of doing something like this."

Friction-stir welding was also used to create some of the components for the dead-sexy Ford GT, whic-wait a minute, this isn't Jalopnik!

I have so much love to give to a Falco, but I'm in the same boat you are. Let's win the lottery together and build Falcos, man.

SpaceShipTwo.

I'm going lo-fi in my nomination. Charlie and Bill Nutt not only built themselves a gorgeous Sequoia F8L Falco, but they gave it a phenomenal paint job, with silver trim over navy blue.

It's generally preferred not to have things falling/shooting off of one aircraft and smacking into another outside of an actual shooting war. That's why, as the others have pointed out, a system of lasers and cameras is used in training. (...It would be wicked cool, though.) The reason you don't NEED a physical dummy…

Thank you. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was wondering.

The video doesn't show what the AK's were firing at. The only info that can be gleaned from it is that something damaged the MI-8, and AK-47-type rifles were being fired in the vicinity.