Ha! We did that Norwegian cruise around Hawaii in 2002 that had to go over a 1000 south to avoid fines. We stopped at Kiribati. What was awesome was there was a typhoon to the west of us. We had 25ft seas, a 25kt headwind and we were doing 25kts ourselves. It was awesome!

You are incorrect about the Countache. As a penance for your wrong mindedness you must watch the intro to Cannonball Run 2. I will watch it with you.

Went to the LeMay museum in Tacoma today. I was struck by the glorious color palettes that were used. Sure, there were a handful of black and white cars, but the blues, greens and reds outweighed them. It was wonderful.

Should have hooned in the snow. Epic fun.

Really. Huge, unsafe fun.

I had a 97 GS-T in royal green. I would post a picture, but kinja. I loved that thing. Fun and enough power. Kind of like the 86 today. Moved on from it when the Evo came over in 2003.

Just guessing.

Now I might going to spend my weekend looking for black bonnet stripes and rally lights for our white 90 Mini.

One of the best stories of the race. They had good backing from Honda, but it is still largely a volunteer operation. Also, any engineering org, regardless of discipline, benefits from having folks willing to turn a wrench on the staff.

When we bought our Odyssey last fall we had to special order it to get blue. The dealer guy was like, “you don’t want silver, black or champagne? Everyone wants those colors.” Yeah, not us dude. I don’t understand the fear of color.

Hi, rare, 43 year old, 2003 Evo VIII owner here. Had it since new. Never thrashed and unmodified. Not every AWD turbo car was owned by a 23 year old who was more interested in boooooossst and a Type R sticker. Strangely when I see a an Evo VIII or IX on the road today they are typically driven by older folks and look…

I suppose I will be the one post a link to Dinner with Racers featuring Tucker. You can hear his perspective straight from his own mouth. It doesn’t stray too far from the quote in the story.

How about the destruction and rebuilding of a major interstate in Atlanta?

Also a reminder of why the older, longer rallys out in the wilds were so cool. Things like this and Safari complimented tighter courses like Monaco and Spain. Maintenance was done where and when they could. So cool.

And this guy as well.

This guy seemed pretty happy with his education.

Car guys/gals make great engineers. I hire a lot of engineers and it has become something that I look for because it has paid off.

Nope. This makes him one of us to the highest level. Purdue grad, works on cars and flies spaceships. Everyone should aspire to this level of awesome.

This is my daughters jam right now. Every day.

That could be.