I can't even imagine.

I still remember when they opened up the airspace again. My dad and I were working on some of the rally cars in his garage, when we heard the familiar whine of a jet engine overhead. For the past 3 days, though, that whine had only been heard on TV just before the second plane hit the towers.

I'm watching this, and thinking "Stang70Fastback, you must be some sort of a wuss. These guys aren't even holding on." Then I got to the 35th second that 39 second clip and went "holy moly, no thank you!"

In case you haven't seen it, this first-person account of the situation is quite illuminating:

They should do better to copy the original British roadster formula, and put a handle on the dash for the passenger.

Could care less?

Violently loose the wheel?

So, you're saying the addition of this car to the collection caused the sinkhole? I smell a conspiracy theory forming...

Dude was lucky. Near my hometown, a few years ago we had an accident similar to this where the girl driving the car with right-of-way ended up being killed. Same situation — person pulled out while another vehicle was turning right, thus blocking their view.

I'm betting the one I saw sitting in a Whole Foods parking lot is unlikely to take advantage of this...

Yeah, I don't have to traverse too many backroads these days (work from home FTW!). Back when I used to run TSD rallies in Canada (during February), I actually would run a cheap set of studs from Les Schwab or similar. They held up surprisingly well, and I even won my class sometimes.

There appear to be quite a few like-minded Oregonians here. Add me to the list of people who find studded tires in Oregon quite pointless.

Yep, I ditched studded tires several years ago, in favor of some trusty Blizzak studless tires.

Came to post, was happy to be not the first, now I have the song stuck in my head.

Alright story time: back in the 70s, my dad was taking a ski trip with his brother, when they stopped to help a stranded motorist change a tire on the side of a snowy highway. While my uncle was kneeling in front of the tire undoing lugnuts, and my dad was standing near the rear of the car, they hear the tell-tale…

I'm right there with you. This could have just been sitting in a box in a garage for 30 years, like so much other computer stuff from the 80s.

Isn't there an app for that? It's neat, but I think the same information could be supplied to the user's smartphone. Maybe it already exists (I'm not a NYC commuter).

Exactly. People tend to drive where there are already tire tracks, in the hopes of not getting stuck. The theory is that if one car made it through there on that path, then they can, too. The end result is people tend to drive where there are already established "lanes" of clearer road, regardless of the road…

And yet, he still finished on the podium!

Towed a competitor into the finish control on a stage rally one time, after his clutch gave up the ghost on the transit section between the final stage and the official finish control. I think we passed at least one cop (in Washington State), and he didn't give us another look.