I wish I could understand the allure of willingly putting yourself in a situation to get ticketed and impounded.

This event usually falls on the same weekend as the NASCAR race in Dover so when my family go we see them all the time. Some of their cars are tasteful and others are just.... something.

I can really appreciate your enthusiasm for learning to do all this stuff. You jump right in and take on projects that more experienced folks might not. Then you whack the starter with a hammer to fix an intermittent electrical connection. And it works. You know what would happen to me? I would whack it and it would…

So, “screw it,” I thought, “what could possibly go wrong?”

Wow, this is good Jalopnik.

Replacing all that stuff with the engine outside of the vehicle, on a rotating stand, is almost like cheating.

Well he wrote this story on the experience so it’s like he got paid to do the work.

Sometimes I think you’re an absolute madman, but I always enjoy reading your stories. If you ever make it over to the west side of the state, I’ll buy you a beer.

A Viper that doesn’t want to kill you shall not be called a Viper.

I understand why the Viper is being discontinued, but it’s still a shame. It really is a hell of a car. I do hope that Chrysler eventually makes another Viper, just with a more mainstream engine and not the V10. The V10 is amazing, but it’s awfully hard for one model to support the R&D of an engine anymore. I don’t…

Never thought you’d have to go through the biggest snakes of them all to get the biggest snake of them all.

Hells yes!!! Thanks for pointing that out. That drives me nuts...I think many of my colleagues think I am an ass for having to point that out every time someone says “thermal mass”. From the mathematics-standpoint it is capacitance or to use a mechanical analogy, stiffness.

They need to give you more cars to review, this more technical article was very interesting and isn’t something I can really get elsewhere (contrasted with any given “I went to a twisty county road and broke the law, envy me” style review).

You should slap whatever Heat & Mass professor ingrained that phrase in your head. Thermal mass, thermal inertia are not real things - thermal capacitance, however is real. Without semantics what would we be, Jezebel?

From my experience in the car business turn over is high for several reasons:

The whole dealership model sucks for everybody. I buy a car and some poor person has to offer me a bunch of shit during a pointless exit interview that has no value. My favorite being a long term warrantee that overlaps the factory warranty and charges for it. We both know all of his offers are crap. I refuse them…

So nobody wants to shop at dealerships, and nobody wants to work at dealerships. It amazes me that a new car can even sell in America.

You know your business model sucks when nobody wants to work or deal with you.

Yup, Customers like you have likely been screwed a time or two before, however times have changed and dealerships don’t make as much as you may “know.” I am a salesperson and keep in mind, you can always avoid the negotiation process and buy at full sticker. I always do when I buy my cars, makes me feel good that I am…

Actually, that wasn’t the moral to Tom’s story at all.