Are those 17” wheels? I’m not happy.

You have to wonder why, back in teh old days, Triumph didn’t think to put a nifty looking tank seam on the original 1964 Thruxton, like the one you’ve got there. Would’a could’a should’a.

They had one of those in Back to the Future II.

I have a new Honda Civic SI. While it is a dynamite car, and I love it to death, it came with Conti ProContac tires that could not be balanced properly. I tried 6 times at several Honda dealers and a Continental dealer.

There are less than 100 people in the world to whom the performance difference between the R1 and the R1S or the R1M would be apparent. Maybe less than that. The difference is more about posing and resale value.

How I came into my 1985 Audi Quatro... I was slowly driving the Chicago streets in my 1982 Chevy Celebrity looking for a parking space when a new Audi 5000 backed out and impacted my front fender. Rather than cop a “look what you did to my Chevy” at the Audi driver like I could have, I lamented the damage to his new…