Another email from a reader who wants to remain anonymous:

no no... what ever engine you can find on your local craigslist swap.

LS Swap?

yeah it’s like all the expense of owning a Ferrari with none of the prestige because it’s salvaged

And yet you still keep the propensity for fires alive. It covers all the bases.

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Yank the body off and graft a clean Pontiac Fiero onto it for the ultimate reverse kit car.

What Doug should be doing is try saving Irwindale Speedway from the wrecking ball come early 2018 to be made into a Shopping mall.

I like the idea of Utterly Realistic Car Ads.

Ah it’s an ad. I mean how many do they make where the vehicle is the only one in the city, road, mountain this at least contains more than one vehicle.

My first time on the west coast, i was flown in to Seattle for an interview with Microsoft. They provided me with a hotel and a rental car (Ford focus with unlimited miles).

It wasn’t a rental, per se, but one time these kids dropped off a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California at the parking garage I worked at. I knew they were probably playing hooky from high school and it was most likely their parent’s car, so me and a buddy took it for a joy ride around the streets of Chicago. There may have…

I think you’re right. The amount of force required for a human body to break any (properly installed and functioning) part of the seat belt system would result in death just about every time.

Umm I dont think that’s a security camera it panned with the car. What are the chances the guy with the camera was filming absolutely nothing at the right time. This is weird.

The worst? You don’t spend much time browsing liveleak, I guess.

“Upon arrival, paramedics found a wrecked performance vehicle lying next to a wall. The body of a woman was found lying a short distance behind the vehicle,” said ER24 in a statement.

Can confirm your story about braking distances - I once ran a 1970 Buick up over 100mph and tried to stop quickly. 4 wheel drum brakes meant that the only thing I got quickly was the smell of melting brake shoes.

Which is stupid, because motorcycles.

Close enough?

Though, if Honda could figure out a way to get, say, a 1.5L engine in there and meet US crash regs, it could help free Honda from the "Galapagos" trap of their current Kei cars. See, all Kei cars are basically like Galapagos turtles, in that they can only exist in Japan, like those giant tortoises only exist on the…