From a critical perpective, it's interesting that the paintings all bear an odd ontological similarity to the DMC 12. Objectively speaking, they're actually pretty crappy. The colors aren't normal, some of the proportions are wrong, they could benefit from more professionalism if they want to compete with the big…

@pauljones: your... mom?

So... what's her number?

@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: They could always just make them drive off a cliff...

When I think about what I did as an undergraduate, I feel like a real underachiever now.

Now my pants are on fire.

It's got a cop motor; a 440 cubic inch powerplant, It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas...

@BrtStlnd: People like us don't have $80k. I take your point about building performance cars instead of appliances, but I think the FT-86, if it ever hits the ground, could be a more Jalop car than the GT-R.

Oh man. This is my kind of project. Italian, impossible to work on, and already in baskets. Oh yeah. I am already looking forward to not being able to find parts for it.

@pauljones: The Pantera is like my favorite car ever, but I've always liked the looks of the Testarossa too. Dunno why. I just don't get all the hating on it.

@ursa: I suppose how high they'd get would depend on how much dope they smoked...

@FodderTheSane: Either one, if you add about 20 more axles...

@pj134: This is why I tailgate after baseball games, instead of before. By the time you're done, the traffic is gone.

@pauljones: Tools and spare parts are what the wife's closet is for.

Will that fit in my Saturn SC1?

@jsqueeze5453: I had a friend once with a MkII Jetta VR6, who blew out the oil pressure sender and scattered oil over the road rather quickly. Apparently when the oil pressure light comes on in this car, an alarm beeps. So he called me in an incredible rage, asking me to fix the beeping noise, or he would drive the…

@rxe7en: 'Relia-what?'

"Oh, you're a mechanic? What does the little light mean that says 'check engine?'"

I'll also take the 2 Panteras in the foreground of the headline shot.

I helped a dude put a fire engine horn in a BMW once. Compressor in the trunk and everything. It was loud enough to hear halfway across town.