LOL @ 610 past the Galleria failing to make this list.

That is true about the 20 somethings, although Torch certainly wasn’t one of them. Obviously agree on the car.

YESSSSS.  Kill it with fire.

Yeah, I was thinking it would be a bunch of hat, or some kind of damping mat bonded to it. Maybe a foam sandwich, although at some point you have to think maybe just do the creases and save yourself money and headaches.

Thank you for actual technical talk instead of Elon bad or Elon good.

They’re refundable right now.  It’s a $100 deposit and you can refund it any time.

No, better as a movie. But I would argue that Grand Prix is at least as good as a document. It may have more fabricated footage, but it also has sequences of fetishistic close-ups of mechanical bits, aerial and in-car footage from many tracks of the day, and footage from the Ferrari Factory, among other off-track…

Grand Prix is an amazing document, but it is not an amazing movie.  It’s better than Le Mans, but that’s not saying much.

One other note: you mention FIA and NHRA, but this was THE Can-Am engine in its day.

According to Wikipedia, this is a *third* ZL-1 that people became aware of relatively recently. That jibes with my memory and Wikipedia, which says the prior two known examples are both coupes, one white and one yellow. I believe only one of those is in private hands, though (although my info is old, so that may have…

Fair. It’s surprisingly hard to find national data for all accidents (at least for someone with just Google and limited time), but I did find data for Kentucky. In Kentucky in 2018, 36.1 percent of all traffic accidents occurred in rural areas and 2019 was “similar” (see link below). As of 2010, 23.3% and decreasing of…

Not per mile. Nearly twice as many accidents per mile driven in rural areas, and it would be lower per capita since fewer people drive in the big blue (vaccinated) cities with mass transit. Yes more accidents in the city (although as you’ll see that’s relatively recent), but WAY more people.

Did the study consider the distribution of vaccination status between cities (where people don’t drive as much even if they’re licensed) and rural areas (where people drive a lot more and at higher speeds)?

Dodge Omni 024 De Tomaso is the classic of the genre. Bog-standard anemic engine. “Sport suspension”, spoilers and some other trim bits. Plus lots of gaudy stickers.

LOL @ this list without the Lotus Carlton. This is no longer a site for hipster car enthusiasts.

We should be specific with the cop cars; there was a time when they got big engines, heavy duty suspension, etc.

I suppose, although most of the cars in the OP were Dodge or Plymouth products too. In fact I only see 4 Chrysler-badged cars.

Spirit, Omni, Colt, Dart, Horizon, on and on.

Yes, God, thank you.  Any MECH-E who has been to school can tell you the magic carbs are absolute horse hockey.  The engine is ALREADY only burning vaporized fuel, and once the intake is up to temp, it is all getting vaporized by the time the plug sparks.  If there were a way for a carb to magically get these…

Came to verify that it had the SBC, Cosworth, Porsche flat 12, and the Offy.  Everything else is whatever, although I’m a bit surprised that the Audi I5 didn’t make the list over some of the others.