“Despite having no experience working on BMWs”

It was a very cool car that should have gotten more love in its time - this is sort of like the recent Pontiac GTO - it was underappreciated and given the ‘meh’ for being kind of bland in appearance which didn’t match the performance. Sort of the opposite of “All Hat No Cattle” which could largely describe the IROC’s…

First LT2 available to drop into an MX5 

White guys in Rasta caps (especially the ones with fake dreadlocks) should be locked up
Also, the fucking Hart Foundation hadn’t been inducted until this year?!  What?

This is about a mile from the Proving Grounds and there are so many test cars there that the grounds has their own towing service. You don’t just call up Backyard Bob’s Towing service to pick up a development car. And obviously GM is going to use GM trucks at the GM facility to tow GM vehicles

Congratulations on passing the final test!

NASCAR wants to get inspection done within 90 minutes to two hours after the race, and gave the full details of the disqualification in the announcement:

Sure, I’ll set the line lock and warm up the back tires right in front of the showroom before the test drive. Because thoroughness.

I used to have hitchhiking races with my buddies back in the day, and the most reliable way to cover the hard distances (like West Texas) was having a funny sign at a truck stop.

then show up at work like nothing happened.

Now this is Service Journalism I can really use, given my sky-high probability of winning a lottery prize greater than two bucks.

“You can do anything to those cars that you can do to a GTI, Jetta, Audi, TT, etc. You can awd it, turbo it, etc.”

At a stoplight in my 2001 VW New Beetle:

Lost in South Florida

I was always fond of the unified design of those original DEI cars, with the “E” motif and slanted, tapered stripes on the sides.

I’d also add to this that when it’s a black kid who spins out his Charger it’s a felony, but a couple of white dudes run 10 sec cars down the street and one of them gets 16 hrs in jail. Just sayin.

Street racing in DFW is dumb as hell considering it is home to the absolute best outlaw drag strip in the country at Yello Belly. No tech, minimal rules and fantastic. Plenty of vids on the Tube of You.

A lot of the “street racing” hype is trying to get a high horsepower car down an unprepped street/track. This equalizes the race somewhat as it turns it into a setup and driving race instead of just blank check horsepower.

It’s not illegal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet in Texas. It is, however, illegal to ride a bicycle without a helmet in Fort Worth. Also, the FWPD really doesn’t like street racing.

Or they disabled the ABS for the speed run.