Pruett’s archive for video, photography, writings and his podcast is as diverse as it is extensive! All of it is excellent. He has become one of Motorsport’s most knowledgeable historians, and his understanding of the engineering is second to none. You should catch up with him one day and let us all know!  That…

This is the SECOND time this year someone has done this on THIS bridge in Daytona Beach! There must be something in the water. Or the beer…

When I saw that the picture was from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Department, I KNEW it wouldn’t be good! But, there is a very large Russian and Ukrainian community in Palm Coast, the county’s largest town. Also a lot of tightly wound retirees…. 

As a local, I’ve watched the Streamline transform from a “youth hostel” and “den of iniquity” to something respectable. The rooftop bar is one of Daytona’s hidden attractions, with a incredible 360 degree view of the ocean and city. We stayed one night, almost a year after it opened, for a 80’s New Wave dance party…

My 2019 330i has the 4 cylinder turbo, makes 255 HP and when people scoff at the & vs the 6, I remind them that A) BMW won an F1 world championship with the 4, not the 6 and B) the original M3 was a turbo 4, not a inline 6. A little Revisionist history out there…

9,500 RPM’s! DAMN! No wonder it sounds so delicious!!!

I’m just a little surprised that Colton Herta can’t drive in a practice session and a driver like Little Nikita Mazepin gets to actually race…. I shouldn’t be, but I am…

The Ferrari “insert model here” ...

My favorite was the Ford 3.5L Twin-turbo V6 in the Lincoln MKT. It made that ungainly pig of a vehicle GO!!! I was surprised me seeing it in the F150 but not the Mustang. Then I saw Mike Shank, then Chip Ganassi, race it in the Daytona Prototype prior to it’s release in the Ford GT.  It is a true jewel of a motor. …

A 20 count Chicken McNugget with mustard sauce and a large Coke. The box fits perfectly in my center console and the cup in the cup holder…. Beef jerky for back up. Gummi Bears and white chocolate M&M’s for when I start to get tired.  The burst of sugar is perfect to get one to their second wind on a long drive.

I love some of the details. My favorite: the rod on the dashboard to keep the windscreen from caving in at speed. Just amazing!

I don’t get it. It chills the Champagne to precisely 6 degrees, presents who the fuck knows at 15 degrees, but doesn’t actually serve the owners anything. Are they so pretentious that the serve themselves?!?!? I mean, the staff must be following in a Renault Twingo...

Wait a minute! There is a car that is remotely competitive with the Mercedes? It has to be cheating! No doubt about it!

How is it that sub shops like Jimmy John’s, Firehouse and Jersey Mikes can toast a sub and melt the cheese without hurting their employee, but Subway owners can’t figure it out? They must really have a really low opinion of their “Sandwich Artists”!

I’d refuse that thing Mercedes offers (“Air Balance”??) to make the car smell better.  I don’t smell bad and neither do my family and friends.  If we do smell bad, we don’t notice and don’t care what you think!

The South of the Border billboards! The attraction itself is meh, but I’ve always enjoyed the billboards up and down I95 since I was a kid, some 40 years ago!

MazeSpin can still go 2 seconds slower AND STILL be within the F1 107% rule! I’m dumbfounded..... I mean, I can hear the conversation between Haas and Steiner:

The Volusia County motto is “Hold my beer...”. As a Daytona Beach local who drives across that bridge regularly, it doesn’t open THAT MUCH! But, to say I haven’t been tempted....

My Senior Thesis for my Economics degree was on the economics of electric cars (EV’s today). I made 3 basic points. A) Battery technology would advance significantly faster then that of power production and transmission. B) Wide scale adoption of EV’s would only move emissions from the tail pipe to the smoke stack,…

My company bought a Chrysler Town & Country minivan for marketing purposes. First, I never envisioned myself ever driving a minivan! Neither had any of my friends. As I was involved in those marketing activities, my face was largely prominent on both sides. Yes, I put the “van” into “Vanity”. I had to drive it…