That’s the plan, I need this car to raise bail at Racewars.

Son? Is that you?

I’m going to buy this so me and my dad can roll together.

“In Europe, badly welded body panels “with a VIN number” wouldn’t make your race car road legal, and no company would insure such a thing. In fact, if they caught you (which is is more than likely to happen) you couldn’t even drive that thing back to base. Huge fine, points on you license, flatbed”

Congratulations $kaycog on COTD! I hereby present to you this nekkid GT 40 which Patrick Dempsey will bring to you when something something.

That is a dead equine. It is no more! It is an ex-equine!

Most people get driver’s licenses without understanding how intersections work, and without knowing how to parallel park, control speed, or use turn signals, so why are we surprised about this? People are dumb, but they have money and a pulse, so they get a license.

And if there’s anything to which they don’t, it was a stupid question anyway.

Dammit, they outbid me!

Could be worse, there was this guy in LA who beat a dude with a torque wrench and got banned from the tracks for life.

Thanks, glad I could give a laugh. That DS is one of Matchbox’s best, it’s a great little piece, especially in black.

In Soviet Capitalist Russia America, we reward weight loss with Big Macs.

That is all.

Last driven in approximately 2002, ironically enough. Basically I just need to build a cylinder head and put it back together, I pulled everything out down to the subframes for powdercoating, a 5-speed, and an engine rebuild, then life happened. I had planned for a track/autocross setup, but as I’ve gotten older I…

Here ya go, with the cars under my desk at work:

Dear Santa,

I commented yesterday that I once said that the old ES300 like yours would be a great car if it had better steering (not that it’s a bad car, mind you). Someone responded (correctly) that it still has better feedback than many modern cars, and that it would probably be completely unacceptable to current Lexus drivers.…

Fair enough, but I used that level because it depends entirely on where you live and your situation. I’m in small-town CA, and last year I took home $48k to support a family, but the nature of my work means my checks can vary by $1000. We’re not destitute, to be sure, but if I made less we’d be in real trouble.…

Spot on. I work on European cars for a living, and that old ES probably does have better feel than the stuff we see now.

Well we have Nevada and MMA, and any of us who isn’t making six figures is more or less a wage slave, so we’re getting there.