What usually happens is that they see how late you’re braking and it gives them more confidence. Sometimes they get too confident though. Still, anytime you’re under acceleration they are eating your lunch generally.

You can get in a 7 for as much or as little as you want. I paid for the labor to build my frame with beer and bbq and Johnny Cashed the rest. Of course, it’s a car of Theseus now, but you don’t need to keep tinkering.

Honestly, you don’t feel extra vulnerable in one. Especially if you ride bikes as well. There’s just so much grip. Mine didn’t really start to get squirrely until after 250 horses or so. I had 350/350 in it for a week just for fun, but it just spun like a dreidel. But you never feel it’s going upside down.

More power for what? It’s a street car. So you can pull harder from 30 to 60?

Hard to overstate how disinterested I am in the C8.  No interest in the running costs of tracking one, and you can’t use any of the performance legally on the street. There’s no use case for me.

I buy quality tires. I just prefer much smaller ones than everyone else. 14s and 15s for me.

I mean, these do look good in the pics. I’m just a cheap bastard. That’s what 25 years of Lotus 7 ownership will do. “What do you mean, I can’t run the same set of 175/14s for 2 entire seasons? I’m out”

Why would you care? You’re a passenger. Do you care if your cab driver comes to a complete stop? Or a bus driver? Your stance on this is ridiculous.

This is so funny to me, because I’d rather smash my balls with a hammer than pay a penny more than I have to on wheels. Or tires. Both are consumables in my opinion, so steelies without wheel covers is what I run on everything. I couldn’t care less what they look like, and I only notice wheels on other people’s cars…

I’ve had a tire machine for 30 years easily. Coats 220.  Paid for itself a thousand times over. Static balance only though.

Yes? 100% it does.

My Tercel has 93 and it’s pretty much fine.  It’s not the HP that makes it nerve wracking on SoCal freeways.

My old EvoVIII dyno’s (Mustang) at 215 whp brand new. It was plenty fast for a street car, already too fast too get on it all the way through 2nd or 3rd 99% of places.

It isn’t smoking tho? That’s the whole point isn’t it?

I just think it’s super hypocritical that vapes, which mitigate all the annoyances people claim they suffer from smoking, end up getting banned because it looks too much like smoking. Folks vaping inside doesn’t bother me a bit if they aren’t cranking it up to generate clouds on purpose. You can vape with no visible…

I don’t do either, but at least I realize the difference between smoke and water vapor. 

It’s any cheap V8 w/ RWD, so they are fucking up Lexus’s as well.

It’s a 2 door convertible traditionally. The Fiata and Miata are the only 2 on this list.

If you got a V8 Vega to hook up it would bend like a pretzel.  Crease the roof and sit on 3 wheels twist. You need to do some serious reinforcement first.

My mom drove a 73 with a auto on the freaking Autobahn. We would get passed on the regular by 2CVs. Felt like the car was going to fly apart by 65. Brand New too.