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Yo, Imma let you finish, but the Burnout games never had a manual and they were the best of all time! Of all time!

these actually look bigger in person than images.

That’s understandable, and I don’t think anybody who is nostalgic for 60s and 70s racing truly wants to see drivers die, but I think there’s a tremendous amount of respect that those of us who are fans of the era have for the drivers and the vehicles because it was so dangerous.

The Pelican thread has documented everything about the car: It’s long gone.

Ok, so it’s not a Popemobile, but two of these pimped Czechoslovakian 500 cc CZ twins were buildt for the pope. Sort of. According to Czech motorcycle historian Jirka Stibůrek from the local Jawa museum, a prankster convinced the CZ factory that The Vatican wanted papal Escort duties. They were duly built, with gold

That was neat.

Now THAT is a steering wheel to aspire towards for production. If that is able to keep an airbag in there, that is very impressive. That’s getting back to the proper look instead of the fluffy adult diaper strapped to the center look that many have had over the last few decades...

Awesome, I didn’t even know such a thing existed!

Pictured: the race official controlling the incident reporting on the bottom left screen for the last Ferrari Challenge race.

That’s not true.

Lotus is by far the best. Hopefully Renault keeps that person on and allows them to keep being hilarious.

The tone-deafness of this video is kind of the point. Everyone uses and expects dinky orchestral music. We are not going to play by your old people rules.

It gets better. He broke his nose during the race when he hit a bird at 130 mph, and ended up winning the race overall!

Still, though, it’s pretty rad that after nobody bought the car they made use of the unsold engines by putting them in trains.

Found some more bits buried in Russian forums (thanks to Google Translate for ... trying I guess):

A bit raw is one way of putting it:

I don’t ride motorcycles. I probably never will. Still gorgeous.

This is simply a gorgeous collection of photos!

This video was by far one of your funniest. Keep it up, loving the content! Also, did that guy pay you for that cab ride?

They don’t.