If the track’s closed, maybe knock off racing entirely for a bit. Heck, maybe don’t go to the track even if it’s open.

He got what he desoived... said in a Brooklyn accent.

I rented a convertible Mustang in Orlando several years ago to go on a long road trip to Key West (holy cow does it take forever to traverse Florida) with my uncle, who was in a losing battle with cancer at the time.

Yawn... David Tracy did this in full scale first and with real rust.

does anyone make a model of a 1978 Jeep CJ with rotted seats, a bent chassis and a seized-up transmission?

Oh, you’re right! We’ll all just stay home, and everybody can go out and catch their own chickens, butcher them, grind the meat into a slurry, reconstitute that into nugget-shaped patties, deep-fry it, flash-freeze it, and vacuum-seal it in Zip-Lock bags for their later convenience.

In 50 years there will be a Jalopnik article that talks about David having to sell his rusty collection of Jeeps.  It will like to one of the old Ron Dauzet articles and I will get a notification someone like my comment from 2017.

Just buy a lottery ticket and win a (barely) Michigan Street Legal jeep owned by our own David Tracy! All proceeds to go to the psychiatrist coordinating the David Tracy intervention.

This is how Ron Dauzet got started. You know that, right?

If they were that much better people would choose them.

Yeah, posts like this makes Giz’s journalists look like they’re out of touch with 50% of  america. It’s just bad.

You do realize that a lot of people actually work for a living and need trucks, right? That Kale salad you are eating was grown by a farmer that needed a truck. That structure you are living in was built by contractors that needed a truck. The internet you are using to post was installed by a person who was driving a…

Yes, I do. People don’t just steal cars for the hell of it.

“People don’t just steal cars for the hell of it.”

Probably because a new vehicle is easily replaced with a comparable unit. With an old vehicle in good shape, its unlikely a. that you will be able to find a comparable vehicle to replace it with and b. that you will receive a valuation from insurance that is equal to how you value the vehicle. 

You think these people are stealing XJs for the money? They didn’t even take parts. This is probably just assholes stealing cars they know are easy to steal and going for joyrides/offroading.

*Automotive journalist petitions government to sponsor Jeeps for Jalops program to stimulate the economy and free up space on their property

That was the stupidest part: junkyards were forbidden from using any engine parts. They were even forced to do things like drain the oil and then run the engine until it seized in order to prevent any unauthorised parts usage. As a result, thousands of people who relied on junkyards (because they couldn’t afford…

You left out two other major issues. First, a lot of perfectly good cars got crushed because of this. And the carbon footprint of that disposal and building a new car generally outweighed the reduction in pollution from an older car.

Thinking about the number of innocent Peugeot 505s, Sterling 825s and Alfa 164s that died during Cash4Clunkers still makes me feel ill.