The price of budget racing is sometimes higher than explected, as Jalopnik reader Brain Silvestro discovered.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

The summer before my first year in high school my next door neighbors got a pair of Siberian Huskie puppies, and by wintertime they had pretty much grown up. After the first big snowfall, my girlfriend and I though it would be cool to hitch them up to a largish sled I had and make them pull us down the street, which…

I’m in 10th grade comp class... I’ve received As on all of my papers so far, so I am a little confused when I am called up and told that my midterm grade is a B-. “You see, Mr X”, the teacher (an old, eyebrowless lady who looked like a sleestack) explained, “we are teaching the writing process and, while your output…

The most insane secondary school trip in history...

Hahaha! This reminds me of the time I got home from school and no one was home, and I’d left my keys at home. So I dragged an old lawnchair up to my bedroom window, and found a knife in the shed which I planned on using to pry the window open. After some jiggling around I gave up, stabbed the knife in the dirt next to…

if you ever make a post about the exact opposite: the dumbest thing you got away with in High School, I’ve got one.

As a senior in highschool i was caught stealing lemonade from the cafeteria. under the circumstances i was able to convince my teachers and later my mother that it was a misunderstanding. the lunch ladys on the other hand was having none of that shit. so the teacher is forced to do something about it. when i got taken…

Eighth grade science class. The teacher was one of those young guys, late-20s maybe, working on his masters while teaching junior high school science. He was friendly with the class to the extent that dumb kids like me thought that the teacher-student dynamic was more of a friends dynamic.

This is my favorite one, mostly because I’m picturing the cop standing on your front porch taking notes about the “burglary.”

Damn, I’m late with this. But I suppose I can still share just how much trouble I got into as a teenager.

You actually don’t need a time machine for that.

In all seriousness, all of 1998. 13 wins in 32 races, including something like 5 in a row. There is something special about watching a team and a driver dominate all, especially when the rest of the competition isn't that far behind from a technical standpoint. his record for wins in the modern era is going to stand…

1935 Alfa Romeo 8C