One of my Ford colleagues in Hiroshima (this was 1994, before GPS and smart phones were a thing) gave me his personal card so the cab driver could get me from my hotel to his place. It had all the addressing stuff + a little map on the back showing where his building was relative to two major landmark intersections.…

No, I get it. While there’s some talent at the pointy end of the Challenge field, there are a lot of people with deep pockets and limited skill running in that series. The last Challenge race I worked — at the 2014 USGP weekend — was a hot mess on Saturday and a hotter mess on Sunday, where they got 2 non-contiguous…

Wouldn’t be Ferrari Challenge without a bunch of damaged Ferraris.

On the 2nd JoCo Cruise Crazy (since renamed simply JoCo Cruise), our group was only about 450 or so out of the roughly 1800 passengers on the ship (and yet, because Holland America Line, we lowered the average passenger age by more than 20 years). When the organizers had done the site-visit cruise, they noted a lot of…

Very real concern. Quite some time ago by Internet standards (by which I mean roughly 1990), I recall an incident in Tulsa where an EMSA bus transporting a cardiac case Code 3 got clobbered by a car that just come off a freeway, drove past ~10 other cars stopped for a red light, and center-punched the ambulance in the…

COTA landed the X-Games after AV8s told them they wouldn’t be back until they could do the multi-race-on-this-continent deal, opening up the May-June timeframe, if I remember my sequence of events properly.

The main reason the series cited was the expense of packing the whole show halfway around the world for one event. They’ve said if they could put together a 3-4 race package for North America they’d like to come back.

BBCA is airing promos for it now.

Related: Referring to a car collision as an “accident”.

The year: 1995. The place: Ford’s Dearborn Proving Grounds. SCCA is working a mini-autocross for a PR/team-building event involving some group or other. On the handling course, Bob Bondurant and several of his school’s instructors (this when Ford had the contract to supply the school with cars). They’re giving the…

When I worked in the auto industry and, particularly in the early days of the public internet (the middle ‘90s), I’d get queried ALL THE TIME about the “100 mpg Fish carburetor” that a great conspiracy of Big Oil and Big Auto crushed.

...on a 6-cylinder that’s had a crap muffler-shop dual exhaust added.

And then she drove her new car into a tree.

I disagree with your headline, Stef.

Correct. This is an entirely different car from Thrust SSC. As anyone looking at the pics of Thrust SSC side-by-side with Bloodhound could tell in about a nanosecond. Oh, well.

When I was in Detroit, yeah, it was a lot easier. :) I had access to all sorts of goodies. Now, not so much. But that’s okay.

Oh, I totally get that. In my case, life intervenes and I can’t always devote the time I’d like to it, or the job requires tools and space I simply don’t have and can’t justify purchasing for what’s likely a one-time use (my wad of A/C system tools notwithstanding... those have paid for themselves many times over at…

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Oh, you really stepped in it with this one, Steve. :D

I’ve not met an indie shop I’d trust who didn’t give me a ton of shit about bringing my own parts. There’s a guy I deal with now who will sometimes install stuff I’ve already bought for me, but that’s after years of dealing with him and an acquired trust that I’m not going to hold him liable for a problem with a part…