Great article! As you say, we’ll never know if Louis Chiron’s accusations were true. Chiron was close to the three Vs of Ettore Bugatti (Jean-Pierre Wimille, Pierre Veyron, and Willam Grover-Williams). All three joined the French resistance, and Grover-Williams was arrested by the SS Security Services and executed in…

Great read, thanks.

Dilaudid? Push the dose button again and get well.

Girls love hand brake turns.

I find it hilarious that you want an extra system to provide more feedback to the numbed, over-assisted cars of today, whereas the chassis and suspension of many marginally older cars (and a small number of newer ones not thusly designed) would have given you all of the feedback through the seat and steering wheel…

If I had any interest in auto racing Weekend Jalopnik would be my first stop.

He said he put a set of nice tires on it. Which means that the steel belts are only partially visible.

Fiesta ST: $21,285

Doesn’t mean we are blind about their deficiencies. If anything we should embrace and laugh at it.

As car enthusiasts we ALL know deep down that we must defend or hoopties and bad choices with zeal. Yes, we all make bad choices, but they were OUR choices and we made them and dammit we will defend them.

When my kid was little, whenever she fell down I would get low and put my arms out like a a baseball umpire and shout, “SAFE!” Most of the time it confused her enough to keep her from crying.

Gotcha. The name actually sounded made-up to me. Although I suppose there are people who are literally afraid of baths.

Must be the first time I’ve seen a LL song reference on the ‘nik. Well done.

Star for Lyle Lovett. If I’m honest, I thought at first this was Shel Silverstein. Thank you, Google.

Stupid shrinks attempting to sound smart by using Greek. Why can’t they use English like everyone else?

They shower in the yard with a hose, or walk through the automatic car wash.

And if I had a boat
I’d go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I’d ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
I said me upon my pony on my boat

These people aren’t doing jack. They’re having fun.

I want to see life-jacket and sunglasses equipped horses on a boat now.

Really. From the original article: