Happiest little vampire. The fangs are glow wire glued to white cardboard.  Then on Halloween I park it at an angle facing the street and wired up a simple flasher to flash the headlights.  With or without the fangs kids love that little car.

Wow, can’t believe you left out the fact that manuals sound so much better.

As a CNC machinist I gotta say I love the name VF-17! For those that aren’t into CNC go to haascnc.com and check out their vertical milling machines, then you’ll get it.

I’m always startled to see a Bugeye on the front page but that’s why I love Jalopnik. Last Halloween I parked my vampire Sprite diagonal in the driveway facing the walk up to the house and rigged a flasher to make the headlights flash. Oddly enough no one was scared, mostly just laughs and smiles.

If you drop a plug while installing it be sure to check the gap again! I once got in a rush changing plugs, dropped one and didn't think to check it or even just look at it. It had a .006" gap and would idle fine but stumble pretty bad under load.

Nice! here's mine. 1961 Austin Healey Sprite. I'm going to park facing out towards the street tonight. I also rigged up a flasher to flash all the lights while the fangs will remain lit.

I have a '61 Bugeye Sprite and I can tell you that women and children Love it! I once came out to the car to find a small group of very cute High school girls taking pictures of it. When was the last time you've seen girls do something like that? And this was before digital cameras! Guys on the other hand are…

It's called a Stinky Slinky!

STUPID AMERICANS. STOP RUNNING INTO POLES.

Nice, here's my combo.

I like that last shot with the Superbird in the background. It reminds me of my current daily drivers, a 69 Dodge Charger and a 61 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite. You could say I like variety!

Drag racing is difficult esp if you're trying to get consistent times in a manual car, but I think you're confusing difficulty with anxiety. I've done drag racing, rally, road, and autoX and the hardest thing to deal with is the severe anxiety of waiting to start. My palms sweat, my heart pounds and without fail I…

That's pretty different than a manually controlled CVT. However, that trans setup in the C4 has been around for quite a while. My '56 Thunderbird originally came with a 3 spd manual with an electrically operated planetary O/D on the output.

Massive intercooler, then an A/C condensor and finally a tiny radiator all in front of a packed engine compartment with nowhere for the air to escape. That's one overheating sumbitch.

I personally don't name my cars and I would feel especially weird calling any of my cars by a human name. Now some cars just happen upon a nickname like my friends '91 Honda Prelude. It was a surprisingly quick car on the autocross course and it was a kind of brown/copper color and so it came to be known as the Turd…

Couldn't agree more.

Well it is police policy to lie to you in order to dupe those who don't know their rights. What's wrong with this guy lying in order to protect his?

I somehow doubt you will, but if you ever get a rotary engine car you'll be cured of that real quick! You can easily spin the engine by hand using just the flywheel so even with a slight slope it will roll away. And in boinger engines the thing that actually keeps your car from slowly creeping down the hill is the…

I usually hit 115-120mph, but we're all going the same direction and there isn't any trees or semi trucks to hit. So even at 120 if the car in front spins out and you're close enough to hit him it's unlikely there will be more than 60mph difference in speed. I truly believe that racing Lemons or ChumpCar is safer…

In some of the faster more dangerous racing where losing control of your body could likely hurt other racers or spectators, then yeah I guess it'd be smart. In Lemons the safety equipment that's required is complete overkill for the relatively slow speeds that these cars run. That's what I thought till I drove in…