Sorry to hear about your battle scar, but glad to hear that it wasn't more serious. It's important to keep in mind that people have died from hockey pucks and baseballs. EVERYONE is lucky that body landed where there were virtually no people at all. If it had landed directly on the seated area, there would have…

The adults just thought we were coughing from the dust. It was hot, dusty, windy, we could interact with the car directly behind us as we died a little bit at a time. What's not to like?

Did you also love riding in the rear-facing seat with the rear window down? Good times.

Ha, I just wrote that I do this in another comment. Good eye.

This. There have been a number of times I have seen a pair of tractor-trailers team up side by side and let a big gap open up in front of them. Sometimes, this is all it takes to jump start the flow of traffic since there is no reason for anyone to be hitting their brakes...hence, no accordion effect. Sadly, the…

My kids (now 12 and 8) both pretty much have the same reaction, though much more coherent, through all of my 'training exercises'. Burnouts, rev-limiter launches, full-throttle shifts and donuts (4WD in the snow so they don't get concussions or break the side glass with their helmets). Pretty sure they are both…

Thanks for posting those photos. Looks like a fun day.

To save the bottom end of the engine? The crank/rods/pistons will see the highest loads when you let off the throttle at high rpms, which is why you see a lot of engines break 'in the traps'. As soon as "safety clutches" were available for our racing transmissions in the early 90's, we had them installed. This is…

I don't know that demolish is the appropriate term, but that is certainly one fast 911. The rolling starts are a little hard to manage. It would be interesting to see which of them fared better from a standstill. I would be willing to bet the 911 has an even better advantage there.

I am going to assume you weren't alive at the time. These cars were terrible, but they only had to compete with equally terrible cars at the time.

Good one. So many hidden gems in those movies. I have to think that there are more than a few true car folk that made them.

Another fun video unobstructed by music. Then I get to the part where I recognize the tires I run in the street. Not common and very distinguishable:

LOL: "The Maybach is a high end luxury vehicle favored by rappers and drug dealers that can cost more than $400,000."

Multi-layer side glass or did the tint film just hold it together?

These kids must have grown up on Dave's farm.

Thanks for saying exactly what I was thinking.

I understand not wanting to bang the car up. I just have a really difficult time understanding how someone could spend 15 minutes trying to solve a runaway car problem only to arrive at the best solution being to jump out at 30-40 mph. Wrecked cars are what insurance is for, especially if you can prove that there…

From the article: "The McLaren MP4-12C was running 10.5-10.6 @ 133-134 MPH for these races and Ferrari 458 was running 11.1 – 11.3 @ 124-126 MPH."

I just love all of the media hype about how many times it accelerated. Sounds like to me that if it wasn't slowing down enough, it was accelerating :-)