@accipiter: SUVs look better with dents and scratches, if you get my drift.

@Turbolence88: Sure does look to be. Also, it's a Camry I'd actually drive, with the front bumper replaced with a slab of hardwood and the paint redone in flat battleship grey.

@punksmurph: Volvo 240s are largely 10 and 13mm, with the occasional 8mm trim bolt or some such. I have sockets for 10-20mm, but my only 8mm tool (save for visegrips) is an 8mm Craftsman spanner I coincidentally found years ago and rediscovered in a box not long after I started wrenching on the car. The twelve-point…

@pinkshinyalan: Behind your head? Are you sure that isn't an MR2 you're driving?

@VeeArrrSix: I spoke to a fellow not long ago who told me that he found a baggie of formerly dank harvest inside the dash of the Volvo 240 he bought new... somehow I don't doubt his story at all.

...but its friends know it as "Phil".

@They call me MISTER Scroggs!: Oh, if only I had a photo of the fellow I met at LeMons on Sunday... he had an Alfa polo shirt, Alfa patch on his cap, and (most ridiculously) an Alfa umbrella. He probably has a seizure every time someone spells it "Alpha".

@Maymar: Exactly. I'd like to see it styled like a Malibu (with a less angry grille and nicer rear) but otherwise more Chargerlike... say, a civilian Zeta-platform Caprice police car (taxi use is also a given for those). I'd settle for an extended Malibu, though I'd think it to be a shame given that Chevrolet is now…

@Kris Aubuchon: Thanks! I knew someone would've had to get some better photos of the damn thing.

@themangeraaad: The (abysmal) current Liberty is sold as the Cherokee in Europe. The original Liberty was pig-ugly, but at least it had some basic off-road credentials...

@Maymar: The new Malibu is a genuinely decent car. The new (circa 1988/90) Impala, not so much. Impalas were always average sedans with an occasional crazy performance option, yes - but they were competitive. The Caprice, up until the end, followed that tradition, and an average Commodore/Stateman/Caprice imported…

@MushyHeirloom: ...not to mention video of the car being towed back toward the pits.

@Kris Aubuchon: I didn't manage to capture the moment, though I did get the wheel being herded back toward its former host vehicle.

It's a shame that their adaptive sprint-car-lookin' roof wing didn't last as well as the rest of the car (well, save for the front bumper). This was as of around quarter past one this (Sunday) afternoon.

@arbnpx: I didn't get a better shot of it, unfortunately, but I can read "Wrong shifter, stupid... Did you forget we have —- ??". Part of it's obscured and seemingly torn away; however, the meaning is clear.

Those 'brownwall' Falkens were gorgeous in their own way. Glad to see 'em bein' roasted.

@Mazda3hatch, et fucking cetera: For what it's worth, the #63 Trailing Throttle Oversteer 1963 Corvair sedan only spun twice this weekend... or was it three times? I think it was twice. Fairly sure.

@underwear-ninja: The official page for this race has, ever since it was created, described the probable weather as "pleasant and humid with potentially fatal afternoon thunderstorms". They were even more accurate than they realised, and so I didn't stick around for the 19:30 release of the giant carnivorous deer…

@Hopman: I still say you should run an Explorer, just for shits and grins.

Yes, there was an inflatable rhinoceros in the cargo area, and yes, I wondered out loud whether it had any realistic, ah, orifices. This isn't an especially good photo, but I managed to largely overlook these guys - mostly because they were on the track far more than in the pit or the penalty box.