Race has nothing to do with it. Illegally giving women Quaaludes and then raping them after they were unconscious is a whole ‘nother thing compared to Harvey Weinstein pointing a finger at his casting couch.

This book is worth a read. It chronicles how and why NASA went from an entity devoted to space exploration to its present status under Obama as a community outreach program for Muslims. The real NASA died 40 years ago.

I remember thinking at the time that the Olds campaign "Not your father's Oldsmobile" was 180 degrees in the wrong direction. If I'd been in charge of marketing, the ad would have been "Your father's Oldsmobile is BACK!", with vintage footage of race-prepped 1948 Rocket V-8s hammering down Daytona Beach, followed by…

Blakkar, you made my morning! You see, I'm the (former) owner of a '96 Viper GTS and was the Eastern Region champion in the 1999 Michelin Challenge vier racing series (Supermodified). Mike described me to a "T", right down to the stripper glitter, 3XL shirts, and penchant for Cubans. I didn't know whether to laugh…

Reminds me of Tom Lehrer's line: "It really makes you wonder what you've done with your life when you realize that when Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for five years."

Oliver, with Mark Lester. Film made in 1968 after the successful 1964 Broadway musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think we should all chip in and send Bertone a case of french curves for their designers to try out? They seem to have mastered the use of the straight edge; I keep waiting for their next design to have square wheels...

Fieros? Not quite. Aluminum monococque chassis with LS3s and G96/00 transaxles. The camera cars were automatics with LS4 Impala drivetrains. Fifteen cars were built for the movie by Race Car Replicas/Superlite Cars in Michigan. All the cars were built to the same spec with the exception of the automatic camera…

Probably. A Lambo knockoff from the movie already showed up on Rustytubs.com. Here's the company that did the cars for the movie: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Superlit…

Sarge, your points are excellent, and I'd add another very important one that you didn't mention: Of the dozens of girls and women I know from ages 18-55 that could seriously be classified as "hot" (i.e. Grid Girl material), every single one of them REALLY LIKES looking that way. Not "most" of them, or "almost all" of…

A good rule of thumb (for internal combustion gasoline-fueled piston engines) is that an engine burns (in Gallons per Hour) about 1/10 the horsepower it is making. Thus, the 1200 HP Veyron (when running at its drag-limited top speed) is making 1200 HP and burning about 120 gallons per hour, or two gallons per minute.…

Stand On It by "Stroker Ace", the pseudonym of Bill Neely. A fictionalized recounting of many real-life racing stories, most which involved Curtis Turner.

+100 for this post! I had a '96 Viper GTS and all the reviewers of that car talked about the "cheap interior." That all-black interior of non-reflective plastic with white-faced gauges was PERFECT! Easy to see everything important, no distractions, and not an extra ounce of weight on the car.

I don't think so. I could have written that article word for word. I have never owned a Porsche, but I put over 5000 miles on a '96 911 AWD Turbo and a Turbo Cayenne that my cousin owned. I have also owned three solid lifter 427 Corvettes, a '66 model and two '69s, one from Motion Performance (remember them?) I…

Aaron, your four points of what you want in an ad are eminently reasonable and logical. However, they ignore the time-honored (and wildly successful) advertising principle of "Sell the sizzle, not the steak." Look at most beer ads.

Title should be "Watch Top Gear try *TO* powerslide..."

+100 on The Driver. Fifteen minutes into it (in college in 1978 at a theater) I blurted out "I'm seeing this movie AGAIN!"

Turbonique (the real-life equivalent of the mythical Acme Co. in Warner Bros. Roadrunner cartoons) even copied DDB's VW ad style...

Given that Ford destroyed the tooling for the Ricardo, what is this car using for a transaxle?

My dad bought a '68 at the end of the model year, and got a free sub to Corvette News. They solicited pencil rubbings of the data plate to find the oldest surviving Corvette. The lowest they got back then was car #3, seen in the last photo with the body being lowered from above. Does anyone know if this car still…