I wonder how much extra Porsche would charge for this?

No, I use to do art valuations for insurance companies.

For a big enough payday someone would try it. There’s a huge market in fake paintings, sculptures, etc. It’s not just about getting the color and brush strokes right - - forgers have fooled dating equipment, chemical analysis, and even my personal favorite: hacked archives to insert bogus records to verify the…

Yeah I know, and that’s what I leased this one. I never leased a car before and I am still second guessing that move, but I am not driving that much now and I just needed something reliable. Leasing a new car, even a Mini, just made more sense than trying to fix that damn Subaru again.

For me it was my 2005 Legacy GT. Purchased it in ‘08 with 30K on the clock. I was so looking forward to performance and reliability, and it was great right up until it hit 90K. Then everything started to fail on it. Before people start jumping on me for not taking care of it, I’m fanatical about maintenance and…

A few years ago a group of us went to Montreal for the Grand Prix. We got up around Thursday, began serious drinking as soon as we hit the hotel and by Saturday afternoon we decided to nurse our hangover with a trip to an indoor karting track. We were rather disheveled looking and once at the track the thoughts of the…

I’ve been trying to find locations of the old board tracks. I finally tracked down the approximate location of the one in Springfield, MA. Long gone, of course and a neighborhood since at least the 50's (approximate location was Fisher Street).

6's are pushing $90K, for the best ones. Rust free or not, this one needs a lot of work. I really like the sixes, but this isn’t worth more than half the asking price.

Much rather look at a plane than listen my neighbor’s wind chimes. Yet if I were to unload a few rounds of bird-shot at her porch I’d be the one in trouble. That’s democracy for you...

Fake news!

Sorry, I don’t recall. Like I said, up until that moment it was an unremarkable drive home.

Had one event that I still find just plain strange.

Lots of cars from the mid-80's on, but for the early 80's I would pick an Alfa GTV6

intersting, thank you. i have no time in any of those, but will check the next time i spot one.

Another interesting fact, the security efforts were unnecessary: Germany had already obtained the plans for the bomb sight around 1938. The German spy ring was discovered by the FBI and those involved were prosecuted and convicted in ‘41, so the government already knew the Germans had it before the US entered WWII.

Where are the rear door handles on the Alfa? Is it part of the C pillar?

Eh, mine went “bang” at 117K following the same maintenance you did. Turbo just failed, taking the engine with it. Rebuilt the heads, replaced the shortblock, and many thousands later, it ran great for another 50K when one of the injectors failed: one valve job later (and all new set of injectors, so a few grand…

Yes, Scarborough, Maine. It’s a nice little oal. When I lived up there we use to run auto-x events on the track. You could make some great courses on that oval.

Not exactly what I was expecting to end up with, but I took home a Mini Countryman S at one heck of a discount.