Great story David ! The only thing cooler than your ability to withstand oppressive heat are your mechanical skills. For what it’s worth, that engine sounded pretty sweet to me, even though it was sweltering. It should give you great pride to see something you’ve shaped (or at least re-shaped) with your own hands run…

Or perhaps Maillet, her husband and a college friend were sitting at the kitchen table having coffee and scones when an “unknown assailant” burst in, sent the trio to the great beyond and made it look like a murder-suicide.

Happy Birthday David !

In all fairness, I expected Jalopnik to take a bigger shot at Pebble Beach, given that the place was loaded with shiny cars and rich folks, and the Jalop -nourgeoisie - was ready to be riled up.

Thank you Raph. I have been waiting all day for this article.

It’s nice enough. I think the expression is, “Looks like a Lambo dude.”

I’m sure this would make a fine academic dissertation and I’d like to read it more thoroughly. But I think perhaps, I’ll just re-watch the History Channel’s segment on John D. Rockefeller in its the Men Who Built America series.

Canadians! Heh. In the US, he’d be drawn and Quartered!

“You’re not wrong, Harry.”

Tom Cruise aka Cole Trickle, aka Maverick, did the same thing in Days of Thunder.

You could always strap your cat into a safety seat if you want to take the animal for a ride.

Crush it ! Remove this pimple of death from our nation’s highways and erase the ennui and despair that it foments.

Counterpoint: One hundred seventy five years ago, it took a year to cross the country and if it snowed in the mountains the only snacks served were your recently deceased travel mates.

Serious as a heartbeat, minus the frivolous banter about the generations. Though the part about the fusion reactors scares me. What could go wrong with an unlimited source of power?

I hope it’s that easy. I’ll happily plant a tree - or buy a tree since my thumb isn’t green. For the planet!

I suspect some Millennial will invent a way to alter the weather and everyone will laugh and laugh at the Boomers and maybe even the Greatest Generation who nearly cooked them.

There is a series racing internal combustion (three-quarter) midget race cars at indoor tracks on the east coast of the US.

General Motors is your wife.

Bentley. The Luxurious Alternative for those who can’t quite afford a personal spaceship.

Ok, it has a carburetor - probably a four barrel and is a V-8 with very deep, square-ish valve covers. But what kind of engine and car is that?