Dammit. Should’ve sprung for that 240Z that was for sale in a driveway in my neighborhood a couple years ago. A bit rough but complete and driveable for (if I recall correctly) $3,000.

...not that I know where this “Driftless” would be, or what it’s like, or anything.

Yeah, no. Sitting on my lazy ass I’m clicking over to find plenty of 2003-newer unmolested S2000s with sub-50k miles for the same price or a bit less. And isn’t the original motor one of the best things about the car?

Uhm, there are curves and blind crests and you’re trying to pass six bikes strung out over several hundred feet? Easy to pass given a clear stretch with visibility, which isn’t common in the Driftless, which is why it’s a great drive without assholes on Harleys who take a 65-mph sweeper at 50.

If it’s never driven, is it a car, or a sculpture of a car?

This! I’m over that way (Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota) nearly every week. Cruising low 60s in a 55 zone (rural two-lane), I often overtake groups of 3-6 riders cruising at 50 - sometimes even slower. I move to pass, and they speed up. Then slow down again. Assholes. (But let’s not talk of the Driftless/river area lest…

Wouldn’t this still require some fairly major reworking of the engine/drivetrain from the original transverse setup?

Wasn’t the Fiero something like that, too?

“...rear-wheel-drive two-seater built on the Neon platform...” Okay, how does this work? I’ve read of a couple similar FWD-to-RWD platform mods, but how much of the original platform remains? Is it just a matter of reusing some structural bits?

“Designed by Clowns” needs to be Boeing’s corporate slogan, painted on the side of every plane.

Any Iowa welfare farmer can tell you why that’d never work here without the government forcing the rest of us to buy their useless product. When it comes to dumping nitrates in our rivers and the Gulf of Mexico, though, it’s hands-off.

Cab. The locomotive (not the entire train) is operated from the cab.

Just as well, really. Saves the hassle of having to return a Lexus.

1981, which makes it very 1970s. It’s the Citroen Karin. Citroen Karin.

Well, everybody was developing two-box fwd hatchbacks. There are only so many variations.

Seems they could have camouflaged the SAFER barrier? Move the fencing to the front of the barrier (in the areas where it would be visible), paint DAYTONA across the front?

Maybe, considering IT’S A PARKING LOT. If they’d keep the lot open to the public during practice/qualifying/the race, we’d maybe have something....

Uhmmm...

They didn’t teach grammar and punctuation?

Mark Twain. If you’ve read any of his Gilded Age material....