So you’re saying this is a knockoff story about knockoff cars?

This is a very special Jeep. It’s the year before the end of the line; the penultimate XJ. They didn’t make any real changes for 2001, so this is as good as they get, and this is a clean, low-mileage example with a great pedigree.

He had plenty of places to go, mainly not into the back of the car in front of him. Unfucking real.

Probably my favorite thing about Jokić is how he couldn’t be less impressed by all the cool shit he does.  Yay, we scored, I guess, whatever. 

One year, I volunteered in the Media Center at Laguna Seca. Back then you could tell the cars by their engine notes. Screaming Ferrari 12 cylinders, rumbling Corvette V-8s, but when this thing went by, it shook the whole building! Lovely noise!

Perfect

Seeing Road Atlanta and the events there before and after Panoz, the difference is amazing.   I remember being stunned at the crowd of 40,000 at the first Petit Le Mans.  Now well over 100,000 regularly attend. He was the best thing to happen to American road racing in the last 40 years.

Yep, nothing gamechanger about it. Seen it before. Looks like a mid-’90s Ferrari.

Pictured: Earl performing his $99.95 paint job.

Yeah, you’re more right than I am. I was thinking purely in terms of their “vintage reissue” Zs.

Going to guess “Haas” at this point.

Looks like someone has a raw hide.

I can tell you what I don’t want. Fucking infotainment. They all suck and will be outdated in a year. Car companies are not good at being tech companies and a car is too expensive to be disposable. If you aren’t going to subject me to an infotainment solution at least allow me to upgrade that part alone. CarPlay and…

Crank windows and manual transmissions.

In-famous? In-famous?

You mean those gleaming, alloy air-cars?  Yeesh, I hear those things are two lanes wide. . .

Like how they washed a Corvette and when they took it out of the dryer it was an Opel GT?

If you think an expert giving a bluntly honest answer to a reporter’s question is “equally childish” as a publicity seeking billionaire accusing him of being a pedophile, it’s not the world that’s screwing up your kids.

Touche, my good man.