Not a car, but a beautiful bronze Vespa 300 with black Akrapovic exhaust. I made a number of upgrades to it. The scoot was gorgeous Garage kept. Never dropped. I used it for my daily commute around Chicago. Decided I wanted a bigger bike and after getting jerked around trying to sell privately, I finally sold it to a…

I traded in my sports car for an SUV when I moved to Chicago because the streets were so bad. Everytime I go back down south to Atlanta, the one thing that I immediately notice is how smooth all the roads are compared to Chicago.

I never realized how truly crappy our roads were here in Chicago until I started riding motorcycles again. It is one thing to hit a pothole in an SUV, but the butt pucker you get on a motorcycle is will stop your heart. I’ve been fortunate to have not had any accidents, but it taught me to be looking way ahead on the…

You could build a 100mph car pretty easily with $500 bucks.

I’m just saying it is most likely a Jato. It is clearly a stadium truck and appears to be nitro. Generally speaking, pulling that kind of stunt is usually done by someone with a Traxxas. Youtube is full of videos of people doing speed runs like this.

I had a Rustler back in the day with full on FLM chassis, motor mount, etc. Wheelie bar. Stick with RPM arms though as you need some flex points for crashes. I’d have it doing 70mph in front of my house. Even had a cop break out his radar gun one day I was messing around as he was so amazed at how fast it was zipping…

I race off road RC cars. Looks like a Traxxas Jato 3.3... Will easily run 60mph. It is a 1/10 scale stadium truck. Traxxas builds cars for bashers. Not a toy, but not really professional grade either. Designed around just going fast in straight lines and being abused.

I race electric 1/10 and 1/8th scale. This is why I only race mod classes. The racing is more fair because everyone has more power than they can use so it is impossible to cheat.

Yup. It is jealousy. Instead of understanding the bike is taking up less space and alleviating traffic, they view it as “why do I have to sit here and they don’t?” Of course, the answer is if you want the benefit, get your butt out of the cage and on a bike! That is why it would work. When people see they can cut…

I’ve argued this for a long time. The most cost effective way to alleviate big city traffic is to encourage scooter / motorcycle use. I’m in Chicago and my commute was approximately 10 miles. Absolutely no reason to be in a car.

Videos like this demonstrate why electric cars will catch on slowly for car enthusiast. There is something visceral about hearing an engine growling like that even if it is slower than an electric car.

I wonder if the issue was that she refused to get off the plane? That is the nuance.

Another way electric is better is that it actually would make auto racing more fair for all participants.

If you want to see the definition of fustercluck, watch what happens when four cars get to a four way stop in Chicago at the same time.

My time is too important to worry about a few pennies a gallon. Time is money.

It is pointless, but let’s be real... .shifting these days is for entertainment purposes only. As such, we might as well get a normal shift pattern.

It sounds like the issue is that mechanics are being paid by the job, not what was actually worked. Maybe an enterprising dealer should offer a salary instead. If the average mechanic makes say $60k/yr, then maybe a dealer should offer say $75k salary, but expects for jobs to get done in a timely manner and can fire…

The rapper, Ludacris in the picture still has his Acura Legend. It was the first car he bought when he was up and coming and I guess it hit a soft spot, so he just kept it all these years despite the Ferrari’s, etc.

The rapper, Ludacris in the picture still has his Acura Legend. It was the first car he bought when he was up and coming and I guess it hit a soft spot, so he just kept it all these years despite the Ferrari’s, etc.

I got into a wreck like that when some chick ran a red light. Only thing that saved probably my wife’s and son’s life is the poor guy in the car next to me who took the brunt of the force. She basically ran the light at about 40 mph and broad sided the car next to me on my right as we were crossing the intersection.…