...you forgot how the truck in that photo landed, didn't you? #destroyedsuspension

great answer! in fact, best answer I have seen yet.

ahahaha, no.

People recognize it as a Z. They like Z's. But they won't think you're rich.

I just sold a project because it couldn't pass smog. How he plans to get this around smog regulations is beyond me, because it certainly appears he plans to street drive this thing.

How about the, "I _DID_ build XXX with XXXrwhp when I was his age" responses? I built the hell out of a Nissan L28E mill and squeezed nearly 200hp out of a naturally aspirated mill normally only good for 130 by bumping up the compression, changing the cams, porting the head, intake manifold, replacing the throttle…

Exactly. It wouldn't be hard to make this a better "rat rod".

Hell, use a soup can or some shit as a tach housing, use some proper hardware rather than that retarded wood plank...

Don't forget Pedobear, and Free Candy

Thank you. A friend of mine stuck a 250RWHP SR20DET into a 240Z back in the day for $7,000 - and drove that car around with no heater, no vent system, no radio and it was much better built than this thing and had a better driver. That car was a zero-fucks-given car, this thing does look like it is trying too hard to…

Travis. I don't see it being any better backyard engineered than any other junkyard project I did at 19. my 1979 Datsun 280ZX was much cooler and I ran this damn canyon just as fast as you're running it now - Stunt Rd used to be my old stomping ground in my Z-car days... http://www.cardomain.com/id/redline280z… is…

I absolutely agree; "Better than any car you'll ever own"? I'm like, uh, no.

H0ly shit, 19,000 RPM mustang. lol

Seriously.

I was thinking the same thing. The graphics are on par with Prodigy, which I had in the mid-90's. I don't see how this thing was out of date back then.

Serious legitimate question. This race came to a semi-local track of mine and yet noone told us? If Gawker/Jalopnik's going to report on us NOT watching these things a good starting point would be to tell us that a) they're coming and when b) how to watch them.

Just wait till IVECO or MAN appears on the list of featured manufacturers.

as if that somehow makes these pieces of crap defensible as edible food? I'd rather eat at McDonalds [barf]

where's the Bugs Bunny gif?

@lindy west: Have you seen the commericals that show parents saying things like, "It's hard to say no to giving my kids afternoon sweets, but telling them they have type II diabetes would be even harder." These ads sort of do what you're describing in the article and have been airing in SoCal.

WHY do people do this shit when you could just as easily put an LS1 in a Fiero body and have an actual mid-engined vehicle instead of this half-ass wannabe with the engine in the wrong place? For $40k you could build a Fiero Kit car with a cheesy Lambo body with go-power to rival the real thing. This... is just stupid.

it's like someone puked all over a stack of books.