His use of constant full throttle is what got him into the mess in the first place. He needed to back off a bit to avoid going ass over tea kettle, and he gunned it instead.

From what I’ve seen, Pipeline Welding. Those guys make BANK! Or rather, they used to. Not so many jobs anymore.

My Mazda 2 does sit pretty high...

I bought a 1986 MR2 from a friend of a friend that wasn’t running due to no spark. Got it home and diagnosed that there was no spark due to a lack of camshaft rotation due to a rat’s nest of rubber-coated fabric where the timing belt used to reside. Thankfully it was a non-interference engine, so after 2-3 attempts to…

They have an Aliso Viejo C&C that’s in the same general area, but they restrict entrance to a handful of marques for anything newer than (I think) 1975. They’ve been having issues with sound and dickish driving lately, which is a big part of what shut down the Irvine event, so we’ll see how long that lasts.

It went down swinging at least. There are worse ways for a car to go.

I, and my AW11, agree with your sentiment. This is mostly due to the fact that I can begin to afford a lot of the cool stuff from the ‘80s. The ‘70's never really spoke to me, the ‘60's stuff is either way too expensive or rusted away to nothing, and everything earlier than that is all style over substance. The ‘90's…

I take it you’ve never ridden a motorcycle in a full-face helmet. You can smell everything when you’re rolling because the air flows through the helmet and right past your nostrils. That’s spectacular when you’re riding through a blooming citrus grove or a pine forest but it’s considerably worse if you’re stuck behind…

You’d be shocked at the amount of overlap in those two groups. This just gives us Caterham-loving Enginerds an excuse to buy legos. We had them as kids, now we can afford them as adults.

If you’re losing the bar forward and didn’t set your pins correctly you’re probably a beginner, and you should probably drop your weight and build your squat up with good form. If you don’t do this, you’ll almost certainly hurt your back when you start handling any heavy-ish amount of weight. Doing more deadlifts and…

I’m totally worth you there. You’re not going to be competitive your first time out (or second, or third). I don’t even worry about it, I’m there to personally improve, and have fun. If I finally start to actually seem to know what I'm doing, that's when I'll worry about being competitive in my class.

I had a great time at my last Autocross in my ‘86 N/A AW11 running Falken RT615K tires on stock triangle 14" wheels. Staying at or above 200 TW keeps you in a reasonable class to where you don’t have to drop multiples of the car’s value to be competitive, STS is a fine place to be.

I Autocrossed a bone stock Mazda 2 on the crap OEM All-Season tires. I had a ton of fun. Sliding a slow car around is a great time, every time.

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They did, 60 years ago. It's called the 7. Caterham still makes them and you can buy it as a kit.

The gif in the lead spot reminds me of sliding our Baja SAE car around every corner we could find back in college. Anyone that enjoys this kind of driving and will be attending a university with a Baja team would do well to check it out. They’ll probably let you drive the car very early in your Baja career and you can…

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The guy that rolled the truck is *literally* the builder. He does what he does, and he does it very well. If it’s not your thing, don’t buy one (though it’s probably out of your price range anyway).

The 2015 Ford F-150 is more costly to insure than a comparable Ram 1500 because it has an Aluminum body. This increases the cost of repair, as very few body shops work on Aluuminum-bodied vehicles. It is also the first-year of the current generation, so few to no salvage parts are available. Because of this repair…