I needed the context, as I was thinking something similar. We gearheads are all alike under the grease. Thanks for the pics and commentary.

Photographers are a zero-sum commodity? Why? My view would be let them all in - you might get lucky on Monday. Even I have been known to make an excellent print by accident. Must be something about my professional wife’s $20,000 camera?

I retired in 2015. After having company transportation since the ‘60's, I was really adrift with only my trusty 1998 Mark VIII as my own car. Like any sentient gearhead, I started looking. SL500? SEC? Coyote Mustang? Electric? HLS30 like when I was a kid? Then something amazing happened. The epidemic caused an instant…

In the 1970's a clause in the Magnuson-McHugh Act allowed some few owners with perpetual problems to stop making payments and return the car without any credit ramifications. I was a young grunt and didn’t understand how it worked, but I know of some actual results. Has the modern obsequiousness to the religion of…

Who says he didn’t?

You need some perspective. I was in this business since 1963. Sixty years of listening to sniveling know it alls who were certain my invoice had been falsified, or we were stealing the trade, etc. etc. Full circle is strangely satisfying for me because you all are merely reaping the rewards of your decades of greed…

I grew up with unions, and saw the gains the workers made with things like mandatory arbitration, medical insurance and pensions. As in all human endeavors, there was a cadre of members who believed only in their bank balance, not their fellow workers. It could be argued that the Kennedys got their power from not only…

I do not understand. Didn’t Mythbusters shoot a bullet into a gas tank without a conflagration? Regardless of speed, an explosion - especially as large as this appeared on those video snippets - shouldn’t occur, right?

If the stars aligned to get me eleven minutes on a closed F1 track I would damn sure not devalue the experience by opting for the anti-car an SUV. My old 370 hp less XK8 would have been more fun. At “only” 155.

It took me fifteen years to understand the true meaning of “boating”. The adage of a hole and money is one of the truisms of life.

You have the fever, lad. This is the most fun you will have while making the car reflect the owner. It appears your motives are pure, so good on you. Even the dog leg shifter cannot ruin your buzz. Or the ignition on the wrong side. ps- great picture and setting

599 is a bunch of Ferraris, historically. I would bet many years in the 1970's their entire output was three digits. Still, any V12 has earned a place at the podium, especially with those beer drinkers everywhere.

Too sensible for consideration.

F1 should take notice of the “loose motors” rules of entrants. This was an entertaining race, but all the various motos seem fun to me. Congrats to the Energica guys for keeping on keeping on.

Agreed. You could conceivably find a Pursang with twice the cylinders and a supercharger for a few dollars more. The authenticity they achieve is amazing to my eye. This should be priced as what it is - a decent kit car, albeit in aluminium.

I am now caring for my 93 year old Mother. She knows its me most of the time, but sometimes I am “the best brother”. We reminisce about our shared past and the few times I get to have the Momma I grew up with becomes a bitter sweet experience because I will probably have to help her with something she doesn’t want her…

Every time I see an absurdity like this, I am reminded of the beautiful “Bugatti” being created by those Argentines - Pursang, I believe. Those cars exceed the performance of the original and allow the owner to re-live a time when eight cylinders and a supercharger were the apex of passenger performance.

In the world I envision, Christopher Hitchens comes back as dictatorial governor of Texas.

When I was a kid, the town of Wallace, Idaho was mostly known for its hotels and no-tell motels and “nice” people didn’t stop. However, my Father who anticipated the classic car boom back in the 1950's had heard of and old car up on a hill in the back garage. We went to look and found a Chalmers. It had those…

I believe they are suffering from a mid-life crisis, with attendant pattern baldness. The union would probably disagree with my diagnosis.