I read a lot of literature and can speak knowingly on disparate and arcane subjects. I love to collect LP’s (vinyl for you Millenials) and love history and philosophical conundrums. That said, my similarly bookish friends couldn’t give a crap about anything automotive and tend to look at me like I’ve just spoken in…

Exactly. The full frontal nudity I’d see on Japanese billboards, newspapers and TV when living there was fine. Even the bathhouses are co-ed, with whole families bathing in hot spring water at a resort I went to.

Saw them play at Austin’s Electric Lounge a long time ago, back when Austin was still ... Austin. I went because Spiritualized are awesome and also because I’d been a long-time fan of Spacemen 3, their genesis ...

Honda, like VW, sold a car that performed admirably initially, then got recalled for modifications that stunted the car’s efficiency and fun-factor. Honda screwed us 1st gen Insight owners by rolling out a battery control module BCM “upgrade” that made the hybrid drivetrain MUCH less responsive and borked the MPG’s…

I got to “I have felt like a clairvoyant who ... sees the specter of male destruction everywhere I look” - then stopped, thinking about all the suburban white women who voted for Trump. This isn’t specifically a male problem, it’s an intelligence problem. It’s an empathy problem. Please, please don’t paint me with the…

Thanks for finding the XL Hybrids site and posting it. I knew I remembered seeing this bolt-on solution years ago for non-hybrid rear wheel drive trucks then never heard about it again. If I could adapt one to my TR6 I’d be all over it.

Just think of all the American jobs that replacing this McLaren will create!

At :52 seconds in, as he’s backing away from the 1st attempt at boxing him in you can see the right-rear passenger door briefly open.
I’m sure that a bunch of circus clowns were about to burst out of the 300 with a hilarious laugh track, too bad we’ll never know...

“Yeah, sure we’ll stop charging you a toll to drive on this road once it’s been paid for. Absolutely. No problem. You can trust us.” -Texas Tollway Commission

Hate is a strong emotion. I reserve it for people who deserve it - like Trump supporters. ‘Hating’ Kubrick is goofy.

Totally uncool that they haven’t posted this yet. Gah.

Now I’m dying to see a comparo shootout between this and the 500hp all-wheel-drive Honda Insight the madmen from LHT Performance brought to SEMA last year. Sadly, their stunning achievement went largely unnoticed as they didn’t slap any silly bling on it. http://www.engineswapdepot.com/?p=8175

Congrats on success! I plopped a RX7 engine that had similarly been sitting next to a friend’s shed for years with a tarp over it into my ‘85 RX7 GSL. Best $500 I ever spent as I sold the attached transmission for $300 and everything worked. Which is odd because sitting is what kills rotary engines ...

Mad props to you for writing / photographing this story - it’s one of the single most illuminating stories I’ve read on the automotive industry since reading Car Wars.

My pal Phil ran a British car repair shop in Austin. He was always elbow-deep in grime. He’d paint without a respirator and reach into the degrease bath to fish out parts and wipe his arm with a dirty shop rag. He’d shoot brake cleaner, mix bondo and inhale stale gas fumes from abandoned gas tanks without a 2nd…

Only if you promise to be horrible.

My ex hates Steely Dan.

It’s NOT wagon wheel effect - you can see on most burnouts to warm his tires that only one wheel is smoking. He MUST have a good reason for not running a limited slip differential...

For the record, I’m the kind of guy who NEVER laughs.

I once found an abandoned syringe with some mystery liquid in it so I just jammed it into an artery like anyone else would do given the opportunity.