Did you get a discount from Japanese Classics for the write-ups and page clicks you've been getting them? Before you started this process I know I never would have thought it could be so easy to import a car and how simple a company could make it. I thought we were still kind of in the days when I asked the guy at a…

Man the cages\frames on those things are pretty amazing. I assume they get tested on a regular basis with this type of event but it sure looks like a lot of un-reinforced bends to become failure points should it flip and tumble.

The long sad story of my '06 M5. When I bought it the car had a few minor issues but seemed mostly solid and like a great deal. I knew that the dealer I bought it from got it at auction and had the local BMW dealer fix whatever was wrong with the engine. Well that's what I thought at least. One of the coil packs goes…

That frame isn't even close and that car as it sits would never make a driver again, at least not a safe one. As a source of parts for some other project $18k for the engine, harness, transmission, brakes, suspension partial interior seems like a pretty good price.

Cleveland Pick a Part\ Power and Performance depending on which sign you read. One of the best places to source drivelines in the entire country.

Pretty sure it survived, but it's probably never flown that high in its life."

How many have they built? If they've sold five and had two on stage at Geneva, one that burnt on Top Gear and however many they've had to sacrifice to the gods of road safety in the US and EU it would seem that they've probably built a dozen or more. Economy of scale has to be hitting soonish you'd think at the…

Have you ever purchased a supercar? Not really a supercar but I own an '06 M5 which despite having four doors has more power and speed than a lot of supercars do.

Damn East side drivers. :)

Kinja won't let me link more than one picture per post today.

Well, both Ford and GM produced refrigerators (and other kitchen equipment like ranges as well). I once helped build a kegerator out of an old Philco (A division of Ford Motor Company) refrigerator.

My first thought was basically the same. Oh those poor shifter bushings.

All that money to buy the car and absolutely no taste in color combinations. Dark blue and bare carbon, well that's good. Yellow accents and wheels? Well that's not good. Green calipers under the yellow wheels? Well that's really not good. I wonder if the interior is yet another contrasting color.

When my grandfather retired from Lima engine he received a lamp made out of the crank shaft from the V8 truck engines he worked on for most of his career. My father has the lamp now and I REALLY want it. The biggest problem is that it weighs right around 150 pounds because well it's a crank shaft not a cam shaft so…

My first ever experience with being called for jury duty I drew the short straw here in Ohio and got called for grand jury duty. So with grand jury the "invite" comes registered mail, so they know you got it, unlike with normal jury duty where it is just a letter in the mail (at least here in Ohio). So, I show up to…

Either works, and apparently there is no brain to be functioning this morning. I actually meant the E60 M5 though.

This one is easy. E90 M5. Wonderful to drive, terrible to own.

For most of my non-automotive friends I explain that things are pretty simple. CEL on, that's emissions and you can usually ignore it unless you are due for e-Check, if you don't want to ignore it go to Autozone and get the code pulled and they'll tell you the $30 part that will fix it and I'll teach you how to…

Appears to crash much less than the last VNX array I was forced to work with, good for EMC.

So rental car plates died out for a while, but they've recently come back. This is especially evident in Colorado, where the rental cars all have bright red license plates that say "FLEET" on the side, as if to tell everyone: I am an idiot tourist. Please murder me and steal my fanny pack. Also: which way to the…