Paging Erik Shilling, get in here stat! Glorification of street racing needs to be smacked down!

You know her and her Internal Affairs officer are doing a full walk through on this just like when they shot Roger in Training Day

Now THAT is stance. Reminds me of the old tale of the street racer Rufus Boyd aka Brooklyn Heavy, who showed up at a Pro-Stock event and bought one of the Sox and martin Hemi Cudas and transport with a briefcase full of cash. Later that week, it had a fresh paint job and was racing on the streets of NYC

Ive got nothing to add to this, except a photo my Grandfather took of a wreck in Central Park in NYC around the turn of the century. As you can see, crumple zones were still a heady dream.

Back in the early 80s I was into TSD rallying and one of the events here in NJ that went through the pine lands in South Jersey (P.O.R.?) had a stage disrupted by a local who lived in the middle of no where on a dirt road where one fine day he had a ton of stickered  rally cars going by his house at a good clip. He res…

My guess would be no. I used to co-drive in rallys (back in the day) in an old 1972 Corolla that had a pair of big ass round Cibies with plastic covers on them. It was a definite non-no to turn on the lights with the covers on. They would start to melt the covers in fairly short order if you did.

I still wonder if Coates’ rotary valve technology will ever take off some day....

Raises hand. I had to fly somewhere on Spirit several years ago, and for whatever reason, I didnt really have a choice of seating, I think it was assigned at the gate, and it was a full flight. I was in the last row. The seat was bolt upright and the seat back ahead of me was maybe 12" away. I’m 6'7". I could not…

My favorite car trip story growing up was listening to one of my school classmates tell about the summer trip he and his 3 brothers and sisters took with their parent and the dog in an old Vw bus. It was really hot so the dog got car sick and start puking. Then the sister started throwing up, which caused the brother…

My GranPappy wrenched on a Winton Bullet so he was on board with the whole petrol thing. Even back when there used to be several electric car manufacturers.

this is why

Im a lifelong Republican and was a big Obama detractor (but not for the obvious reasons), but this is a pretty shitty take. He gets to unwind and be himself for awhile. And you seem to be more pissed that he isnt taking public swings at the sitting President, which only proves you know jack shit about how Presidential…

For those of you who arent able to stream, I offer as a small token, one of the pictures my Grandfather took at the 1906 Grand Prix race at La Sarthe (the original triangular shaped circuit)

“That’s right, the 70-100 dollars you pay per month....”

Whoever has the worse attorney.

That was Bob Norwood. I still have the issue of Road and Track from 1989 it was featured in. Its done 292 at Bonneville. The car was nuts. 512ci aluminum big block, twin turbos, a Cygnus funny car transmission.

CP. The ad copy, if it were truthful, would probably read: “We phucked up. We bought this thing sight unseen thinking it would be a good flipper. Bad call, its been used up to within an inch of its life. Suspension is barely there, valve ticks and rod knocks sound like a Buddy Rich drum solo. Brakes pull and squeal,…

Um yeah. I used to work at a parts store that specialized in Euro imports back in the mid 80s. These things usually required special orders overseas for most parts back then, as there was a limited dealer network. Good luck and God Bless.

My kids got sucked into parties there when they were young. We called it Sucky Cheese. It was hell. All the tables were end to end, you couldnt tell where one party of kids ended and another started. My daugher spent a good part of one party sitting with the kids from another party without even realizing it. The wife…

That top pic is similar to his hydrometer. He worked for a spell with Winton around the time Barney Oldfield drove for them. He worked on one of the Winton Bullets, one of which is in the Smithsonian. I have his owners manual from a 1915 Rolls that was in his care. He was also at (one of?) the first Grand Prix race at…