Cheers to a fellow DWANGO veteran. I played quite a bit out of SoCal for a while.

I’ve been harping and railing against the improper use of names for ages about many things but after a while nobody gives a shit or I get backlash and get called pedantic. After a while I just shrugged it away because people on average kind of suck anyway and can’t be bothered to learn the correct words and phrases or…

How is your goose stepping practice coming along? Your right arm getting tired yet from vigorous thrusting upwards?

Obviously editorial error. The end of that blurb should end with “, yo.”

Ahh yes, I remember that article. It’s just that on first impression the title just made it sound like some mad boffins turned a more sedate Civic (Si perhaps) into something rivaling the Type R. Obviously reading just a few sentences cleared up that brief confusion.

Is it just me or did anybody else initially read this as “How to turn your own Civic into a Type R”?

“You’re a rabbit now; you’re a kid now”

Only a blithering idiot would think he can successfully run a drag racing business where the I-5 crosses the 605.

It’s just the end goal of any large commercial enterprise. Slowly ensure that you’re 100% dependent on only their ecosphere of product so that they can monopolize and monetize you. The speed at which they do this is largely dependent on the level of complaints from people who realize this is happening but still use…

I don’t know... I’ve had some pretty tasty insects. And bad ones too, actually. So it would be a crapshoot for sure. Moot point, they’re an endangered species and rather cute, so eating them is off the table, so to speak.

The Aussie is running on stock rubber I suspect, not drag radials like in your video. Plus manual vs automatic.

And his creative work was rewarded with a copyright violation strike for playing Mario Kart for a few seconds on a black and white analog display with scratchy mono audio. Well played, Nintendo.

Got ticketed for doing 45 in a 45. The road was nigh empty except for him about 200 feet back. Apparently he felt that conditions were unsafe to drive at that speed (the road was slightly damp but drying after an overnight rain, no standing puddles).

The Ford Probe had several generations of the 3 spoke wheel.

I would have taped the part that would have been covered by the plate frame and plate anyway, where surface damage of the clear coat isn’t going to make one lick of difference anyway. And besides, the front is going to get covered in nicks and digs more than any other part of the car, if the plate was going to be…

Am I reading this correctly, that he was ticketed for not having his front license plate on the vehicle?

Everything that everyone else said. But also take into account stereoscopic vision. A single camera lens will easily pick up the halo, like if you were looking at it with one eye closed. But with two eyes, your brain will mostly minimize its effect.

Every era comes with a trade-off or cost. The only reason this Time period is one of the best is because it’s easier than ever to find what you want, if it’s available at a reasonable price. Yes, modern crumple zones are great but they come at a cost of poor visibility and added weight. So compensate with a rear view…

Most roads in the major metropolitan areas and suburbs in SoCal are called “the X freeway” and not “Interstate X” because they’re not marked as Interstates.

We had a company party at the Marconi Auto Museum a few years ago. At one point I was wearing a blonde mullet wig while kissing a co-worker in front of a camera because she wanted to cause a scandal at the office, but I digress....