Nobody noticed the perfectly timed braking and oppo? Not his/her first spin. Possibly his/her finest, however. That was beautiful.

It would be interesting to find out if they knew ahead of time how woefully inadequate their plywood ramp would be. The certainly knew that their inflatable barrier wasn't going to stop it. Kinetic energy FTW!

They use the same water over and over.

He heard the old myth about how beetles can float. He just forgot to turn it upside down.

I found the guy in the black hat:

One of the most unexpectedly funny things I have seen today. Thanks for making my coworkers look at met.

Nice (correct) reference to centripetal force.  I will just reinforce your argument with: kinetic energy is not a mystery, either.

Wow, that looks so similar, but not quite like the squid-ridden HWY 319.  You don't have to give your secret away, though.  We found many other good roads to ride in the area.

because planetary?

Not being sold with a 6-speed was a pretty common complaint and once the first (quite expensive) conversion was done, it became a pretty popular modification.  That single change, along with a necessary rear gear ratio change, made it seem like the car lost 1000 pounds.

That's strange, because my 1994 Impala SS, purchased in Florida as a 1994 Caprice got titled as a 1994 Caprice here in Pennsylvania.  Both of my 1995 Impala SSs were titled as Caprices in MI back when they were new...much to my disdain when I saw the first title.  Tri-9 Impala SS was a badge model.  A trim level, if…

An innovation introduced just this year?

24 hours clocks are awesome.  I dozed off after work sometime in the summer of 1994 only to wake up in a panic at 7:48 and race in to the office, all the while wondering why things looked 'different'.  Nobody was in.  Quite the Twilight Zone moment while I tried to determine what day it was.

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.