Thank god, they were so hideous. The original FabCar wasn't too bad, other than being terribly slow... The Coyote was also pretty decent looking. But the Riley, Crawford, Lola, and others were just ugly.

Now now... GT3 spec McLaren's and Porsches are actually pretty damn close to the street cars, hell they're less powerful than the street porsches! I bet the Ferrari's are also pretty close to street car too... Now the Grand-Am RX-8s, and cameros, and pontiacs, well, yeah, thats a silhouette race car.

If that were the case Webber would have been much closer to Seb this year...

That looked like a tire pyrometer to me. If so he's testing tire temps across the width of the tire to make sure he has optimal camber and tire pressure for the run.

Don't know if anyone mentioned Nissan's ode to C'etait un Rendezvous

i concur sir! I have 3 MK1 GTIs (1 ITB car, and 2 parts cars) and 2 MK2 GTIs (1 LeMons car, and 1 parts car) and they have proven to be more fun to fling around a track then either 911 I've owned because 1) they're much cheaper to fix, and 2) I can get those cars closer to their limits which is so much fun. Remember…

Porsche's flat 16 motor

the 928 was introduced in 1977...

I'm going to have to fudge this by 34 hours or so and go with the Porsche 928, introduced in 1977 and offered for sale in 1978...

I reluctantly go CP. As the owner of a initially $5000 85 928S I think that any ad that doesn't mention the date and mileage of the last timing belt is a bad sign. As this guy owned the car for 9 years and doesn't mention a timing belt, then it MUST be done or you could lose the motor at any time. Timing belt job…

If juries can't select a punishment large enough to actually hurt the defendant in a civil case then there is nothing you can do in a civil court to punish the defendant, and then the defendant can just keep doing whatever they want and pay the small fines that "tort reform" will impose.

The Tamiya 959. I had the Celica variant. (ok it was for my dad for Christmas, but I was 13, so I built it before he had the time to!) so bad-a$$ mid-mounted motor driving 3 ball-bearing limited slip diffs, with oil filled coil-overs on all 4 corners. That thing on slicks was a beast around my neighborhood, and on…

hey! i was watching that!

I literally squealed like a little girl when I read this headline! I'm watching it RIGHT NOW.

I will miss the quad apex turn 8.

Porsche 917. It was competing in a class for production cars, so porsche built 25 of 'em, lined 'em up and called it a production car. World domination came a year later when some english gits cut the back end off and taped some plywood to the tail.

Maybe for the first time in Paris... He did a show at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts a few years back, it was very cool, especially if you went on the evenings when they opened the hoods.

So is this car based on the street car, or does it just look like it? AKA is this more like a Porsche Super Cup car, or a Grand-Am Mazda RX-8?

Now that is the product of a well mis-spent youth! I feel so unaccomplished now. Also those are some really nicely detailed cars, just fantastic work.

So in the world challenge series, is this a race car like a 911 RSR is a race car (production tub car, seam welded with cage added and tweaked engine and powertrain) or is this more like a Grand Am RX-8, or Solstice (tube frame silhouette scratch built race cars)?