Sideways and flat out with the biggest grin you'd ever seen until the apocalypse. I'd be bringing the apocalypse to sidewalks, malls, shopping cart return thingies and Turin every day until the last.

Re 5th: Butterface (IMHO). Love the profile, but I'd have to put a bag over the front end before I'd flog it.

I'll have to put it on the calendar for Feb. I guess. With the shots-around-the-world party I'll be heading to NYE I don't think anything before 1pm will even exist on the 1st.

Hey now, I spent my Christmas break sampling the fine offerings of Islay! That right there is some mighty fine stuff!

Haven't yet, but am planning to. I'm up in Roswell, so I've got no excuses. Hoping to have the radiator sorted sometime in the next few months contingent upon some trials a fellow mini owner is running with a radiator on his. On the gauge front, I mostly just need to get the water temp gauge going so I can remove…

Hahaha, my freshman year we were parked up next to Waterloo. Great group of people. Ended up with a Waterloo sticker on our toolbox... which was immediately defaced to say Waterloo-loo for no real apparent reason.

#2 = WIN! FSAE was the greatest thing I could have done in college and has come in handy since getting out when it comes to managing projects and engineers. I'm talking to the faculty advisor from my old team currently to try and get around the shop sometime in the next few weeks for a visit (and to bring some pizza…

Oh man, I've wanted to do that for a bit now. I got a text from a friend shortly before Christmas... it was a picture of the cars getting prepped as he was about to do one of the classes. Definitely enjoy, maybe a review piece for good ol' Jalopnik too?

Have my 1970 Austin Mini 1275 in better shape and able to handle the Atlanta heat before my wedding in June... and have a dash with working gauges too.

How to prevent your pre-mid-90's car from being hot wired:

Any of the Loti Danny is planning to bring out. Nimble, good power, and a good amount of heft from "safety regulation mandated improvements" so you don't get crushed straight away. Oh, 2011 model year? Oh well, I'll keep this post until the 2013/14/15 versions of this QOTD come out.

Nope. 1.5 was what I meant. I've had 1.5 of mulch in the back of my Ranger w/o issue. 1yrd = a 3ft x 3ft x 3ft area which fits in most truck beds. Add the extra area for the other 0.5yrd and you're getting tight on the smaller trucks, but not unreasonable. Typically a yard of dirt is between 1800 and 2200 lbs…

I'm more OK with that than an X3... then again, I kinda want to see the gravel part :)

Re 1st Gear:

Holy apex clip batman!

"Michael's car has 25 horse on me and no spoiler whereas I run a 5" Blainfab spoiler which creates a bit of drag, but makes up for it with stick in the turns."

My parents went the route of "ticket and you're done until you buy a car" (while driving my parents cars)... mind you my "job" was "school" so buying my own car would have to wait until after college since it was apparently a volunteer gig. Getting into a wreck was more along the lines of "you can drive again when…

Dammit, and I just cancelled my account.

He was close enough on may occasions to draft but pulled out without having gotten enough tow yet. And define "right up on someone." I raced from age 14-25. From the short bit of experience with door cars (spent the majority of my time in 125cc shifter karts) the drafting effect can be felt from a good 4 or 5 car…

Damn son, this guy pulls out earlier than a christian. For the love of god stay in the draft a little longer my friend.