It’s like racing at PIR (Portland or even Phoenix, nowadays) when the cottonwoods are shedding...

Jump-to-hyperspace through the course, that also murders your air filters & rads/oil coolers... and can even cause loss of traction if drifts collect near the racing line. And yeah, bring plenty of Claritin so you can…

Not femurs strung on a stick, they’re pelvic bones (ilia/ischia)

Definitely some Countach in the low and mids, lot of that first clip’s run reminded me of various Top Gear I-6 and V12 supercar segments. Top end wail’s definitely unique...

On a tangent... moto 4-stroke engines have had 14:1 running quite reliably in Supersport and Superbike tunes for decades now, spinning upwards of 13-15K rpm. But the reason they can do that practically, and your K-motor Civic won’t, is multifold IMO...

I remember looking at a CERV III concept on the cover of R&T while stationed overseas ~Desert Storm timeframe... and thought it, and the Indy concept parked next to it, were the ultimate forms a Corvette could possibly take, and that it’d be out in ‘96 or so, given how production-ready the details on the CERV were.

Constantly torn about living on O’ahu...

One advantage to driving the InSivic — its wheels aren’t nearly as mockworthy as the ones on the current Civic EX trims...

1500 motor not ideal. They were designed to cruise with enough torque to move the big bike, not be sporty... so they had zero valve overlap, which kills any pretense to high rpm power.

I like muted greens, like OD or BRG. John Deere green is fun for a lark but I’d personally hate to see my Coyote-powered, IRS, fastest-showroom-Mustang ever, to look like it’s injection-molded Tonka/Cozy Coupe/Rubbermaid plastic, every day when I see it in the garage.

Nothing against those who want Tonka/Cozy…

C’mon, warfighters — you’re the good guys! As if elementary schools aren’t in the news enough these days.

Chibi cars with massive engines = bliss. Like a Siberian Tiger cub. Cute and adorable... but don’t diss. :D

Had designs in HS for a 289 Hi-Po-powered E40 Corolla SR5... judging by the Yugo, that same car could probably sport a Coyote...

For anyone from a country who does this, thank you — the drivers I have to deal with everyday do the polar opposite of this simple gesture.

Yup. J-car Cavalier... meh, bordering on bleh. Toyota Paseo, not less than a feh, please. :D

Mostly penis extensions for the vast majority of their owners... if you wanted something with comparable top speed AND braking/handling/roll-on... a K3/4 GSX-R1000 was *vastly* superior to it.

I used to prep the original ‘99s as a tech... and they’d either rarely come in, or wheel in on a dolly in pieces. I’d rarely…

The blurb in my feed cut off the ‘want a roof’ part... to which I still wholeheartedly agree with.

I appreciate the skill and physical conditioning part, but unfortunately a lot of people with skill and physical conditioning decide to use it for jock-douche crap like this, chasing adrenaline rush like poop-throwing monkeys. Monetized, to make doubly sure it sticks around.

The Simpson cars at least, seem at first to sidestep the Ungainly Valley... until your eyes settle on that windshield surround and wheel-to-body proportions. Then those Miata ratios in your mind start to cancel out the neat detail coachwork, and the illusion collapses. Same with the Daytona & Cobra in jb21's post.

Hmm... those names are interesting examples of convergent evolution in language.

Slow day, Torch?

As a tinkerer all my life, I too cannot see the common sense in paying auction prices for something, when I can 1) buy a useable & much more ordinary model for pennies on the dollar, and 2) build it out myself, to my specs, to match my tastes. Hermetically-sealed, climate-controlled heritage cars at stupid-silly…