The ultimate test will be how it does in a Testarossa. Will it hit a billboard or palm tree, killing the driver and his yellow-haired girlfriend?
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Someone who gives another driver a courtesy wave can be held liable for a portion of the damages. Happens everyday. Typically it gets assigned 80-20 to the driver-waver but it's a total coin toss depending on the case going anywhere from 100-0 to the opposite.
Since this is predominantly a car site, do you know anything about the history of the Budd Co.? So many of the advances in automotive design that we ascribe to various auto makers actually came from the engineers in Philadelphia. The guy I bought my house from had over 20 automotive patents as an engineer at Budd and…
Since it is a kit anyway, fab a new square tube chassis to tie together Miata F/R subframes. Drop the body over it. Best of both worlds. A unique body no one has ever seen before with 50 years of history combined with modern bullet-proof mechanicals. Done.
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This is the one for me since my dad owned one when I was a kid.
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Having a kid grants a parent powers that would have seemed unimaginable before. Specifically, you have constant…
the FDNY responds to four car fires every day during winter
From the BRZ owners manual:
Holy crap. This guy has a friend so good, so loyal, that he'll bolt out of his house without a goddamn shirt in -15 weather to help him pour water on a freezing road? Buddy, you should marry that dude, because there is no way in hell you'll ever find someone drunk or loving enough to do that kind of shit for you.
I like that, too.
Corvette.
Access to credit is important to automakers because they use it for much of their lending.
I have a story! Back when I was very young and much much dumber I moved to the beach a couple states away for the summer. I got a stupid job on the strip at a go cart track waving flags and shouting at people who were having fun while getting sexually harassed by my supervisor whos husband trained Army Rangers at a…
No, not the video game. This is a story about real life grand theft auto, and it's remarkably sweet.
Also, another fun story. America became a world dominating technical power after WWII. Rather than rebuilding bombed out cities we built new businesses and thrived in the late 1940s. We created the American middle class, had lots of kids, and bought larger and larger autmobiles. We weren't restricted to postwar…
Here's a fun short story that a lot of White Western American's share.