I see those things are running around the El Paso area everyday. Good riddance. I don’t understand the appeal of them. The Sentra of that era wasn’t even a good car of its time. Why would anyone want to by a new version of a 20+ year old mediocre car?

I like your tour idea, but the timing is backward. We’ll go get drunk and then spend all day leering at people’s cars sounds like more fun. If nothing else, the leering would probably be better.

This seems like a punishment for guys who don’t make their numbers for the last month. Take away their usual car and make them drive a caravan.

There was in 2005.

I like it.

My first thoughts were along those lines, too.

Isn’t an engineer supposed to know that those plug kits are a short term, emergency fix? If you’ve watched what they do at the tire shop, a proper repair involves pulling the tire off the rim, inspecting the damage, patching the inner liner from the inside AND bonding a plug through the tread and belted layers. The…

In an NB, you can fit a golf bag in the trunk minus a modern driver. That has to sit in the passenger seat. You cannot, however, fit a full-size acoustic guitar in the trunk.

Hey! This is filmed at Sandia Motorsports Park, my hometown track outside of Albuquerque. I built some of those tire barriers in the background, and some of my old race tires are in them.

Exactly. I’ve never liked the Andretti style, but I won’t deny that Michael and Mario both had a tremendous amount of talent. Michael had enough talent, enough raw speed, to win lot races in spite of his driving style. Marco does not.

“Driver tailgated everyone, but crashed into fellow uber driving during an ill-advised passing attempt. Damaged car then ran out of gas before reaching destination. Said his father would pay for the missed flight, but still waiting on the money.”

While his driving was sometimes cringe inducing, this is why I love Paul Tracy in the announcer’s booth. I also think he is right about Marco. While Marco had flashes of talent early in his career, he has spent most of his indycar career driving like an Andretti: hard on the machinery, crashes often, crashes out…

Those SeaDoo/Yamaha boats rock for what they are. I owned a twin engine one for a time when I was stationed in place where I didn’t have ready access to the family boat. They’re cheap to buy used, easy to maintain, every bit as much fun as a PWC but with the practicality of a real boat: You get to sit in something…

Back in my days as a hydraulic mechanic, I twice drove an 40 year-old, 40 ton forklift a couple of miles across Albuquerque on public roads from the customer’s shop to our own. Just the 14 foot long forks off the front of that thing took some getting used to. I only once almost made a shisk kabob out of a Chevy…

We need to teach Doug how to get into a racecar. Any PA area spec miata racers on jalopnik?

Hey now, how do feel about knees? I once repeatedly used my left knee to steer my racecar during an SCCA club race in the rain so that I could wave to the corner workers at one particular station with both hands while in a near-opposite lock drift.

The other thing here is that there was/is a huge pent up demand for new trucks and full-size SUV’s. As the prices have become stupid expensive, folks have been holding onto them for increasingly long periods of time for about a decade now. At some point, that’s got to give and you’ve got to replace them, and that is…

Because your lease is usually done after 2 or 3 years.

For the asshole in theMcLaren, I see a stop sign violation, and maybe a failure to yield to the skate broader as a pedestrian in a crosswalk, which are usually both penalty assessment petty misdemeanor violations (assuming this was a state in which minor traffic violations are a criminal offense and not an…

Over the course of about a year in the late 90's, we had jiffy lube and/or Valvoline instant oil change cross-thread a drain plug and silicon it into place, leave two oil filters loose and fail to replace one oil filler cap between my parent’s two cars. We have never used an instant-oil change place since that day.…