A coworker of mine died after going off the road and hitting a tree. About a year later, another one of my coworkers was driving down the road and was hit BY a tree. He still hasn’t been able to return to work.

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In the test equipment world, this is totally normal. Due largely to the fact that a $10,000 piece of equipment is a capital expenditure but the $5000 in accessories isn’t.

I want to see the GLCOAT drive still.

Shirley Muldowney’s my favorite female racer. Talk about a woman who showed up to kick ass and took no shit. She made the top drivers watch their steps in a day where things were even more uphill than they are now.

The blast radius of the F-Bomb according to the FCC in the ‘50s

There was one race that was sponsored by Coca Cola, Jeff Gordon won it. He pulled into pit lane, they quickly put the Coke props on his roof, he slid out, while still half way in his car he cleared the roof. Just swept everything right off of it. Then proceeded to wave off Coke bottle after Coke bottle until someone…

The SRT4 Neon had no muffler. Stock.

I’ve found for vacations, plan one big or two small things a day. No more than that. If you only have two things to go to that are an hour each, you’re not stressing and can enjoy things. Driving and want to just look at something you saw? Go for it. You got the time. Enjoying a nice spot you took a break at? Keep…

You have an Audi 70? Pfft! 240Z!

Not after it leaves the shop...

The way I look at things:

My take:

The front wing was actually to pass US bumper height laws. The later ones that were brought in by the company itself had different bumpers that had huge lumps to get the required height.

So many of those make me feel so conflicted.

Coming off of the “Starion”, I would actually believe that it was a tongue in cheek joke to both.

Do epic burnouts, get judged, win prizes. In descending order of importance.

It was such a huge deal BECAUSE it was the last.

Could be worse, you could steal a Duesenburg. Every single engine and chassis has been accounted for. There are no barn finds, no junkyard pulls, nothing. Someone knows where that car and motor have been.