2013 GT500. I expected to be scared. I expected it to be ferocious with 662 HP, but the gearing is so tall it is just civilized. At anything below going to jail speeds it just cruises and is borderline boring.

1991 NSX. It was a slug until I revved the engine to the fastest spin cycle. Nearly every gas station visit, every intersection, included an encounter with an annoying kid who wanted to race. I lost interest in it completely when a beater Integra at my lunch at a stoplight.

So true. My dad (a boomer) loves to talk up the ol’ muscle car days. Sure, at the time they were significantly faster than anything else on the road. I’ve driven his 340 ‘Cuda a few times. It’s gorgeous, sounds great, and... that’s about it. We even raced each other at the local drag strip. He’s rebuilt the engine and…

My cousin rode the bus in highschool, the same route for four years. Everyday he would see this yellow type-r peaking out of a garage, sometimes he would see it driving next to him. He loved that car, it was his dream car. A decade latter he finds a yellow type-r for sale. He emails the owner and just asks if it…

Met it. Bought it. Own it. Daily it.

Fair

Fun early Viper story -

That’s probably because you didn’t really expect anything great from the Cavalier.

Not so much a hero car, per se, but the old Lexus LS series are increasingly being talked up as amazing cars. So, a 2004 LS430 with only 30k miles pops up locally and I went to see and test drive it.

The sound and acceleration from naturally aspirated 8.0L V-10 made me nut. The very first corner I turned into made me dead. 

Not so much as meeting a hero, but meeting one again after many years. Grew up just after the muscle car era in the mid 70's, so friends had all the usual suspects. Fast forward to 2005 or so, and I’m in Vegas and the wife and another couple rent me a 68 Camaro SS convertible for my birthday.

My 2000 V70R...

I used to love the BMW 7 Series for how big and luxurious and fast it was. When I had the chance to buy one with 4,000 miles on it for only $30,000, I was sold. It was great, and it would drive amazingly until my transmission completely broke down and my sensors went berzerk.

I charge with a 60 amp 220v daily. That’s what it’s designed to handle. It just makes it charge faster. Though if they were using a NEMA 5-15 in a normal 15 or 20 amp socket, you wouldn’t be able to plug it into your 220v NEMA 6-x outlet unless you also had the appropriate adapter, and in quick case, it would only…

Screw that. You’re parking on someone else’s property without permission. That’s trespassing. And yes, you can have it towed without being charged with theft.

Agreed.

Joule thief!

That’s an immediate tow from my perspective. And putting a little pebble in the valve stem cap as well.

We have parking brakes here, but you would never ever use it in an emergency unless you have a brake failure. If youre normal brakes are working using the parking brake is probably one of the worst things to do, its one of the first things you learn when you get taught to drive.

forcing me to have to rip the E-brake.