When I think back over my driving career, it's amazing that I survived.  I don't leave behind a long legacy of smoldering metal heaps, but it's pretty clear to me that it wouldn't have taken much for my story to have ended much differently.  Oh, there have been crashes and any one of those could have ended badly (the…

I live in Pittsburgh, where it can get pretty cold.  When it's single digits cold, you don't catch me working outside without a hat and gloves.  Or, with that relaxed of an expression on my face.

They are out there, but a nice one is going to set you back nearly $30k.  For less than that, I can get a later first-gen CTS-V...which I may very well do this year.

Having never been to that track, I am just going to take your word that those are good lap times.  I am impressed that your buddy has a Carbon Edition, which is the Corvette I lust after.  The finance department is having a little trouble with the price of a C5 Z06 at the moment, so it's going to be a while before a…

I never got hassled by the police for anything other than the occasional well-deserved speeding ticket, but this much is true: driving a Dodge Diplomat with a ski rack during the late '80s really sucked. Everyone in front of me went the speed limit. The last thing I want to be driving is something that makes other…

Bollards. That's what they are called.

That is exactly what I was going to say, except you did it sooner...and, well, better than I was going to. So, I wasn't going to say exactly that. I was going to say something similar.

breaking :-) It's not often that I find humor in the mis-spelling of braking, but I will give you this one.

I know, right? Please pick me up in front of my office.

I have a '95 Caprice with a 6-speed swap. Mucho fun in the dry. Even more when it's slick out.

It looks like she ends up standing there with a torn empty bag. By my calculation that car was closer than 1 foot from her.

Your sarcasm came through just fine. I figured he just bumped it at the last second by accident. The wiper control in my Sierra is just close enough to the wheel that I tend to activate them when I am driving like a jackass.

Ha, I noticed the same thing. Even though his inputs were a little slow and he ended up losing control anyway, he had the right idea by trying to drive through it without slamming on the brakes. That was almost a great save.

When I was a kid, my dad and uncle decided that the '57 Chevy race car needed a set of those Moroso Super/Stock springs that were much longer than stock. Why go rent/buy a spring compressor when you have a floor jack, the rear bumper of a duallie and some coat hangers? Just like in the video, there was some noise…

Ugh, I can't take it. Too distracting. I listened to that tape so many times that the tape broke...and so did a couple more of the replacements. Whatever dumbass is trying to cash in on that cover doesn't have anywhere near the range and power, at least while his voice was still good.

Every time I see that car, I think of the incredible onboard footage with the barely perceptible slide near the end that could have so easily become a big moment of end over end tumbling down a tree-covered hillside. Off to look for that now...

Raising multiple hoonettes at once! Great job, dad.

Apparently somewhere between there and $40k/season:

I agree 100%. This reminds me of watching the earliest days of Top Sportsman, Fuel Altered, Outlaw 10.5, etc.

Thieves suck